The large Cuban medical brigade caring for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti on January 12 began receiving the backing of specialists from other countries, noted the local press on Sunday. Personnel from Venezuela, Chile, Spain and Haitian resident physicians who studied in Cuba are already working with the Cuban medial teams deployed at different points in the capital of Port au Prince.
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Read MoreThe sun had barely set and already, the residents of Rue Berne were making their beds. These bedrooms were makeshifts arranged neatly on one side of the street, away from shaky walls and fragile home frames that remain so dangerous.
Read MoreHaiti bleeds and the international community searches for ways to help amid the chaos so that the immediate needs of the population of Port au Prince can be met after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake destroyed the city. On Saturday night former Cuban president Fidel Castro wrote his second post-quake commentary on the desperate situation in the Haitian capital and the participation of Cuban medical personnel in the relief effort.
Read MoreCuba now has 220 doctors and health staff working in the disaster relief in Port au Prince, Haiti along with ten tons of medicines flown in to meet the most pressing needs. Numerous young Haitian doctors who studied medicine on scholarships in Cuba have joined in the effort, including 37 who arrived from Cuba on Saturday.
Read MoreCuba’s mammoth medical effort in post-earthquake Haiti is receiving reinforcements from Venezuelan and Dominican doctors who graduated at Havana’s Latin American Medical School. For numerous years Cuba has had some 400 doctors and medical staff working full-time throughout Haiti, the most impoverished nation in Latin American and the Caribbean. With the current situation, dozens more specialists in emergency care have arrived.
Read MorePedro began his comments by saying that the Cuban people are asked for greater effort, understanding and trust, but that authorities were continuing to turn their backs on them and that their problems remained on the back burner, with the excuses being the nation’s lack of resources and the US trade blockade.
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Read MoreThe Dominican Republic, which has historically regarded its Haitian neighbor with suspicion, has turned toward Haiti with a tremendous outpouring of aid and love since a devastating earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.
Read MoreUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has thanked the Cuban government for the opening of its airspace to aircraft with emergency and health evacuation missions from Haiti. For several years Cuba already had over 400 doctors and other health staff working in Haiti, and with reinforcements arriving from a special emergency service brigade, the island is the main health care provider facing up to the crisis.
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