Cuba Envia 53 Médicos e
Enfermeiras para Combater o Covid-19 em Itália
The Cubans, who traveled to
Sierra Leone to fight the Ebola virus in 2014, will arrive in Lombardy.
Cuban health authorities
announced on Thursday that the country will send 53 health professionals to
Lombardy, Italy, to help contain the new coronavirus pandemic.
The 53 doctors and nurses
have experience in caring for these types of diseases. In 2014, they traveled
to Sierra Leone in West Africa to fight the Ebola virus.
According to Cuban
authorities, the arrival in Lombardy will take place next Saturday, March 21.
The regional health
counselor Giulio Gallera announced that the European country "requested
medical support from Cuba given the shortage of health personnel in Italian
hospitals."
Giulio Gallera, Consejero de Bienestar de la Región de
Lombardía (foco de coronavirus en Italia): "Tendremos personal de
Venezuela, China, Cuba, son médicos a los que obviamente les daremos un lugar
para vivir, pero necesitamos las habilidades de todos".
"Welfare Councillor for
the Lombardy Region Giulio Gallera said, 'We will have staff from Venezuela,
China, Cuba, they are doctors who will be given a place to live, but we need
everyone's skills.'"
Gallera's request reached
the competent authorities of the Caribbean island through the Cuban ambassador
in Italy, Jose Carlos Rodriguez.
The Cuban doctors and nurses
will join the ten professionals from China who arrived this Thursday in Milan,
Italy.
"Cuban and Chinese
medical personnel will be sent to a field hospital in Bergamo, the region of
Lombardy most affected by the pandemic.
Italy has recorded more than
3,000 deaths from the spread of the disease, surpassing China as the country
with the most deaths.
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