Under the principles of solidarity and internationalism, around 2,000 Guantanamo collaborators in the Health sector work in fifty nations, as part of Cuba’s medical cooperation with sister countries.
Rosaida Bandera Feijoó, head of the Collaboration Department at the Provincial Health Sector, said that women are a pillar as they are the most represented in countries like Venezuela with about 1200 of several specialties, 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 mortality rate.
The performance of collaborators in the struggle against covid-19 and cholera stands out in very marked nations with increasing numbers of patients such as Haiti, where they work with quality and with their actions they deny the falsehoods created by the enemies of the Revolution.
Since May 23, 1963, when Cuba sent the first international medical brigade permanently to the Republic of Algeria, to date, Cuban professionals have provided services to more than 2.46 million people and saved the lives of another eight million in different regions of the world.
Translated by Ilia Charon
