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First international course on Ebola
begins in Havana
Lisandra Fariñas
Acosta
The
Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine opened
its doors Monday, November 10, to more than 100
medical professionals participating in the first
international course on treatment and prevention of
Ebola, which will continue through the week. The
course was organized in response to a request made
during the recent Bolivarian Alliance for the
People’s of Our America (Alba) technical meeting
focused on combating the virus, attended by
representatives from 34 countries.
The
course, according to Marieta Cutiño Rodríguez, a
Cuban deputy minister of Public Health, is directed
toward the preparation of health professionals in
the region, “with the goal of continuing the
training of personnel who will have the
responsibility of participating in the prevention
and control of Ebola in our countries.”
She
reported that in attendance were delegates from 18
Latin American and Caribbean nations, and one
African, as well as the Caribbean Public Health
Agency, in addition to representatives of Cuban
medical brigades working in Venezuela, Ecuador,
Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Haiti, Trinidad and
Tobago and Mozambique, among others. The faculty is
composed of 18 experienced professors from the IPK,
the Medical Sciences University of Havana and the
Ministry of Public Health.
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