Blog Archives November 2014

Cuba, Ecuador to Strengthen Bilateral Relations

Cuba and Ecuador advocated for strengthening bilateral relations and pointed their areas of coincidence in the context of the official visit here of the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño.»

Cuban Ebola-Stricken Physician Felix Baez Well Assisted in Geneva

Cuban health collaborator, Felix Baez, infected with Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, is receiving first-level assistance at the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), in Switzerland, Granma newspaper reported. In a brief phone contact with the daily, the director of the “Pedro Kouri” Tropical Medicine Institute, Doctor Jorge Perez, stated from Geneva that the Cuban physician “is being well assisted.” Ebola »

Cuba Winner of CACG Baseball

Cuba’s national team won the gold medal in baseball of the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games Veracruz 2014, defeating Nicaragua 9-3 slate»

Ebola Infected Doctor Reported in Stable Conditions

Cuban Doctor Felix Baez Sarrias, who got the Ebola virus during his work as part of the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade in Sierra Leone, is in stable conditions, though he feels very tired, said the head of the intensive care unit at Geneva’s Cantonal Hospital, Doctor Jerome Pugin.»

Domingos Simoes Praises Cuban Work on Health

Cuba turns its weaknesses into strengths and shares what it has to help make the dreams of many nations come true, said Guinea Bissau’s Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira.»

Trinidad Nurse in The Time of Ebola (+photos)

“Are you nuts? Those who go there don’t come back”. This was how he was openly addressed in the street as soon as people knew he would leave for Sierra Leone, to fight Ebola. But, when you hold firm convictions, nothing matters. He completed his military service in Angola, in the 90s, where he had to assist the wounded during »