“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 »
Messages of hope, encouragement, love and solidarity fill different social networking platforms to support Doctor Felix Baez, infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone. After the news of his transfer to the University Hospital of Geneva in Switzerland and the stability of his condition was made public, comments through multiple websites of the Caribbean nation and the most popular social networks »
Cuban doctor Felix Baez Sarria, member of the Henry Reeves medical brigade in Sierra Leone, was diagnosed with Ebola and is now under treatment at a Switzerland-based specialized center, with no complications, the Cuban Health Ministry reported on Wednesday. The report published on Granma newspaper explains that on November 16, the Cuban doctor, a specialist in Internal Medicine who had »
The United States is willing to cooperate with Cuba in the international struggle against Ebola in Western Africa, as confirmed on Wednesday to EFE by a spokeswoman of the State Department.»
Cuban President Raul Castro bid farewell to a medical brigade that will fight the Ebola epidemic in Africa, mainly in western countries of that continent.»
A Cuban brigade of 165 health specialists arrived Thursday in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to join the fight on Ebola, according to the webpage of the Cuban embassy in Ghana. The brigade was welcomed by Deputy Health Minister Madina Rahman, who said that the Cubans left their homes and families to come to her country in order to fight the terrible »
Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz bid farewell last night to 165 health professionals headed for Sierra Leone as part of the global fight against Ebola, the Granma newspaper reported today. At the stairway to the plane, General Raul Castro clasped the hands of each of the members of the Cuban medical team as they left to perform their sworn duty »
The program “Mas Medicos” (More Doctors) will have 13, 235 health specialists in April to provide medical services to a population of 46 million Brazilians, asserted on Monday the country’s President, Dilma Rousseff.»
President Nicolas Maduro stressed on Monday what he described as the “incalculable assistance that Cuba gives Venezuela in caring for the health of the people in a deeply humanitarian and supportive gesture.”»
Over 500 health professionals were handed over their certificates this Sunday in Sancti Spiritus, in a graduation ceremony dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the attack to Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes garrisons. In statements to Escambray newspaper, Dr. Cira Julia Márquez explained that the new professionals graduated from medicine (208), health technologies (126), stomatology (108), nursing (107), and »
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