Cuba Sends Specialized Medical Brigade to Mexico Post-Earthquake Havana Times
go to original October 2, 2017

Cuba Trains 80,000 International Doctors for Free (TeleSUR English)

Cuba has sent a brigade of 37 doctors and paramedics to the Mexican state of Oaxaca to attend the victims of the earthquake that left nearly 100 people dead on September 7, reported dpa.

The team belongs to the “Henry Reeve” contingent specializing in natural disasters and consists of 19 doctors and 18 specialists, including clinical laboratory technicians, nurses, anesthesiologists, psychologists and physiotherapists, state television reported.

The objective of the brigade is to “support those affected by the earthquake that hit Oaxaca, one of the poorest regions of the country,” said a television report from the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana.

At the head of the medical mission is Dr. Rolando Piloto travels, who previously headed the group that Cuba sent in 2007 to the Mexican state of Tabasco, then affected by heavy rains.

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