The brigade is made up of 27 health specialists who
were sent off early this morning from Terminal 5 of Havana’s Jose
Marti International Airport by Cuban Health Minister Jose Ramon
Balaguer Cabrera.
The minister handed the Cuban flag that will accompany the brigade
through the mission to Dr. Juan Carlos Andux, head of the brigade.
He told them that the humanitarian mission to Chile is a task of
honor.
Deputy Health Minister Marcia Cobas told ACN that the brigade is
made up of doctors and health technicians from 9 of 14 Cuban
provinces. It was constituted in less than 10 hours, “a true record
in the organization of this type of solidarity-based medical
groups,” Cobas noted.
“The doctors do not know the specific place where they will be sent
to in Chile because their destination will be decided by local
authorities once the brigade arrives in the country,” Elis Alberto
González Polanco, director of the Cuban Central Unit for Medical
Cooperation, told this news agency.
The group includes a total of 11 doctors specialized in different
medical fields, six nurses and the same number of technicians who
carried tents, sets of instruments, equipment, medicines and even
their own food, all transported in two Cuban aircrafts.
Chile’s ambassador to Cuba, Gabriel German, attended the farewell
ceremony of the brigade at Havana’s airport.
