Cuba Ups Haiti Medical Brigade to Over 1,200

HAVANA TIMES, Nov. 28 – Cuba will send 300 health professionals to Haiti to strengthen its contingent, already near 1,000 strong, deployed in that country, with the aim of answering the call made by UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos, who asked the international community for more aid to face the cholera epidemic, former President Fidel Castro announced in his most recent Reflection published on Saturday, reported IPS.