Guantánamo.- Under the principle of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro “Being an internationalist is to settle our own debt with humanity”, around 2,500 collaborators from the Health sector in Guantanamo work in some forty nations, as part of Cuba’s medical cooperation with sister countries.
Rosaida Bandera Feijoó, head of the Collaboration Department in the Provincial Health Directorate, highlighted that the largest number of Guantanamo health personnel is now in Venezuela with 1,640 collaborators and they have had a great impact on the Barrio Adentro mission, in addition to South Africa and Algeria.
The province’s medical collaboration has been extended to other countries such as Mexico, where specialists in internal medicine, intensive care, pediatrics and imaging have been working for around two years. They provide services in hospitals in that Caribbean nation and thus contribute to strengthening care for different age groups in the Aztec country.
Since May 23, 1963, when Cuba sent the first internationalist medical brigade permanently to the Republic of Algeria, to date Cuban professionals have worked in 165 countries, with more than 600,000 collaborators, of which 2,500 are from the easternmost territory of the country
