Havana, Cuba.- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed today that his country is taking on its internationalist vocation by sending a field hospital to Mozambique, which was affected by cyclone Idai last week.

‘From #Cuba we sent a field hospital to #Mozambique, personnel, equipment and medicines to provide health care after the strong impact caused by the cyclone in the sister nation, assuming our vocation of solidarity and internationalism,’ the president wrote in his Twitter account.

The day before, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Anayansi Rodriguez explained that the aid will help widen health care in that African country with the island’s personnel deployed there.

The contribution includes medicines, equipment and the necessary personnel to attend to the contingencies derived from the effects of the violent cyclone, which caused 400 deaths, 110,000 homeless people and considerable material damage in various regions of Mozambique, added the diplomat at the Maputo embassy in Havana.

After signing the book of condolences of that nation’s diplomatic legation here, the comptroller general and vice-president of the Council of State, Gladys Bejerano, also reiterated Cuba’s permanent willingness to offer solidarity to all the peoples of the world in this type of situation.