Under the principles of solidarity and internationalism, around 2,000 Guantanamo health professionals provide services in some fifty nations, as part of the island’s medical collaboration with sister countries.
Rosaida Bandera Feijoó, head of the collaboration department in the province, highlights that women are the pillar of the medical collaboration as they have the largest representation in countries like Venezuela, with about one thousand two hundred women from a variety of specializations, followed by South Africa and Algeria.
The Guantanamo medical mission was extended to other countries such as Mexico, where specialists in internal medicine, intensive care, pediatrics and imaging have remained for about a year, providing services in hospitals in that Caribbean nation, in which they found a high fatality rate.
Likewise, the performance of the collaborators in the confrontation of COVID _19 and cholera stands out in nations with increasing numbers of patients such as Haiti, where they carried out a high-quality work and at the same time they deny the falsehoods created by enemies of the Revolution.
On May 23, 1963, Cuba sent the first international medical brigade permanently to the Republic of Algeria, to date, the professionals of this island have provided services to more than two thousand 46 million people and saved the lives of another eight million in different regions of the world.
Translated by Liubis Balart Martínez
