{"id":16965,"date":"2026-07-18T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=16965"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:59:19","slug":"cuban-medical-assistance-in-calabria-is-highlighted-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/cuban-medical-assistance-in-calabria-is-highlighted-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban medical assistance in Calabria is highlighted in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cuban medical collaboration in the Italian region of Calabria is essential to maintaining healthcare, and will continue despite US actions against it, a report says today.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US government, particularly the current Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is maintaining strong pressure aimed at trying to end the presence of a brigade of Cuban doctors in all the Calabrian provinces, according to a report published on the digital site of the newspaper Avvenire.<\/span><\/p>\n

The article recalls that, for this purpose, last February the United States charg\u00e9 d’affaires in Cuba, Mike Hammer, traveled to Calabria with the US consul general in Naples, Terrence Flynn, who met with the regional governor Roberto Occhiuto.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is rare for Washington\u2019s diplomacy to be concerned about the healthcare staff of an Italian region,\u201d the text points out, alluding to the real intention of trying to deprive the island of the income derived from these services, which help finance healthcare expenses in that country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, Italy is the only nation in the European Union that employs a significant contingent of Cuban doctors in its hospitals, so achieving the cessation of that presence represents for Washington “a symbolic political objective,” observers indicate.<\/span><\/p>\n

The agreement dates back to July 2022 when Occhiuto, who was also serving as regional health commissioner, signed an agreement at the Cuban Embassy in Rome with the Cuban Medical Services Company to provide up to 497 professionals to Calabria.<\/span><\/p>\n

The result \u201chas been very positive,\u201d Dr. Francesco Moschella, head of emergency services at the Polistena hospital in Gioia Tauro, told Avvenire. He described the local health situation as disastrous until the first doctors arrived on the island, and now there are almost 400 of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

For her part, Cuban specialist Zoila Ar\u00e9valo told the newspaper that “we didn’t imagine the situation was so bad,” and highlighted the commitment to this task, as did cardiologist Daisy Luper\u00f3n, who rejected Rubio’s maneuvers with false arguments that denigrate the work they do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Occhiuto stated that \u201cif it had been up to him, he would have welcomed up to a thousand Cuban doctors\u201d and referred to the pressures from the US government, which \u201cI also suffered during the Biden administration, but they increased with Trump,\u201d the source added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Radio Progreso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cuban medical collaboration in the Italian region of Calabria is essential to maintaining healthcare, and will continue despite US actions against it, a report says today. The US government, particularly the current Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is maintaining strong pressure aimed at trying to end the presence of a brigade of Cuban doctors in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,12],"tags":[2228,2227,626],"class_list":["post-16965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-internacionales","tag-calabria","tag-cuban-medical-collaboration","tag-italia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16967,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions\/16967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}