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Cuban volunteers
return after combating cholera in Haiti
Yudy Castro
and
Eduardo Palomares
AFTER four months of commendable
work alleviating cholera in Haiti, 130 Cubans from
the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors
Specialized in Disaster Situations & Serious
Epidemics have returned home, proud of having
lowered the death rate from the dangerous disease to
0.38%.
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Cuban
Health Minister
Roberto Morales Ojeda presents Dr.
Lázaro Gustavo Roque with a special
certificate of recognition for the
Brigade’s campaign against the cholera
epidemic. |
On welcoming the 52 physicians who
arrived at José Martí International Airport, Public
Health Minister Roberto Morales Ojeda commended the
professionalism of these doctors and presented them
with certificates of recognition for their
unconditional aid to the Caribbean nation.
The other members of the Brigade had
already been honored in Santiago de Cuba, where
Lázaro Expósito, first secretary of the Communist
Party in the province, placed similar certificates
in their hands.
Dr. Lázaro Gustavo Roque,
highlighted the sound intention of Comandante en
Jefe Fidel Castro when he perceived that
mobilizing the Medical Brigade’s human resources and
graduates from the Latin American School of Medicine
(ELAM) would make it possible to mitigate the
epidemic.
He also emphasized the contribution
of the Proactive Monitoring Groups in Haiti’s sub-communes,
where they identified and treated more than 5,000
cholera patients.
Translated by Granma International
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