The President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, insisted this Friday that “our health personnel must protect themselves and we must protect health personnel”, in the face of the threat of Covid-19, a disease that already counts in the world more than two million confirmed cases, 923 of them in Cuba.
In order to work as advisors in the protection of Cuban collaborators and to provide experiences to the health authorities of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a Brigade of the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Physicians Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics arrived on Sunday in Venezuela, to assist in the confrontation with the new coronavirus.
Chancellor Bruno Rodriguez and Minister of Public Health Jose Angel Portal received another group of Cuban collaborators who arrived in Havana from Bolivia.
Cuban collaborators of the health sector support more than a dozen services in the Venezuelan capital through a program of actions to improve the quality of life of the people.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodriguez, exchanged with Phillip Joseph Pierre, leader of the opposition, and former Prime Minister Kenny Davis Anthony, representatives of the Labor Party of Saint Lucia.
This Tuesday, 203 health workers arrived in Havana after successfully fulfilling their mission in the More Doctors Program in Brazil, who were received by Ministry of Public Health Jose Angel Portal Miranda and other leaders.
Virginia Dandan, expert on human rights and international solidarity of the United Nations (UN received an extended information this Wednesday on the principles of the Cuban Revolution as the right of people to health and solidarity in this field.
