Picture: Radio Ciudad de La Habana

Proud of having done their duty, the members of the medical team that offered their services at the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, following the floods that hit that country in October, arrived in Cuba.

At terminal three of Havana’s Jose Martí International Airport on Saturday night, Deputy Health Minister Marcia Cobas welcomed the eight members of the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Physicians Specialized in Disasters and Major Epidemics who worked there for a month in the desert, ACN reported on December 20.

The group, headed by Dr. Enmanuel Vigil was composed of two epidemiologists, four specialists in general medicine and two nurses, which also served as professors and reorganized work in hospitals.

Regla Angulo, director of the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation, told ACN that the Cuban medical mission in that country began in 1976, which has remained uninterrupted, and that now there are five Cuban specialists.

Created on September 19, 2005, by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, a total of 45 brigades of the Henry Reeve contingent have so far been present in 25 countries, Marcia Cobas told ACN.
Some of these countries are Pakistan, Indonesia, Chile and Nepal and in the fight against Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry, added the deputy minister.