The solidarity with the Haitian people is manifested in their work, both by doctors and other health personnel who have contribute for over 10 years in that country, as well as the Henry Reeve International Brigade, made up of some 700 graduates and students from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).

They have accumulated about six thousand surgeries, performed over a thousand births; 17 000 laboratory tests, 4 000 ultrasounds, some 1 000 electrocardiograms and the same amount of X-rays.

The Cuban and Latin American medical forces develop, in coordination with the Haitian authorities, a program of psychosocial damage mitigation for youngsters and infants, and in its framework they have entertained with recreational activities, games, sports and others, over 32 000 children.

They have also vaccinated with tetanus toxoid over 79 000 people and developed a vector control in 600 settlements, with a rodenticide application and fumigation.

The Special Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), in its meeting on January 24th to discuss the situation in Haiti, presented a project to take on the member countries of the emergency services, epidemiology, rehabilitation and physiatry.

Likewise, they took on the reconstruction and equipping of all the Haitian health system, from primary to tertiary hospitals, as a valuable contribution to this nation.