Ottawa, canada.-Canadian non-governmental organization Help to Fight Ebola (HFEC) delivered an award called Friends of Humanity in Africa to the government of Cuba and the Cuban doctors who helped to fight the ebola virus.

The distinction was received in a special ceremony, byt eh Cuban General Consul in Toronto, Canada, Javier Domokos Ruiz, on behalf of the Cuban authorities and the doctors and nurses who took part in the struggle against the ebola virus in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry.

In his words Domokos reminded the important Cuban contribution in moments in which panic and individualism prevailed, in the middle of one of the most recent and hardest sanitary crises the world has ever faced.

‘The Cuban doctors were already in the affected areas when the epidemic came in, as part of the long page of solidarity of the island with the brothers and sisters from African nations and that it has seen more than 70 thousand public health professionals in African soil’, underlined the diplomat.

He recognized as well as, thanks to the humanist and universal vision of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, the country set at the disposal of many nations you join in the world the prestige and the high medical quality of its physicians, across the united work of the international brigade Henry Reeve, emphasizes a note of the Cuban consulate in Toronto.

In the ceremony there were present out-standing personalities of the political, scientific and business life of Canada.

The central words of the act were in charge of Ndaba Mandela, grandson of the legendary fighter South African antiapartheid Nelson Mandela.

Answering to called of help expressed by Ban Ki Moon, Secretary-General of the Organization of United Nations (UNO) and the World Health Organization in October 2014, Cuba sent 256 members of the Henry Revee contingent, to face the virus of the Ébola in Guinea Conakry, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

In these three nations of West Africa, the Cuban medical personnel, in addition to being employed at the remedy of the dangerous virus, contributed also to the sanitary prevention, something that there recognized the authorities of the affected nations and of international organizations.