Cuba Sends Teams of Doctors to Assist Guatemala After Volcano

[Judi Lynn]

1. Good for these Cuban doctors and other medical workers. They do it to help PEOPLE,

not to make themselves wealthier.

Their brand of real medicine certainly separates the wheat from the chaff, to use a biblical expression.

I remember they sent so many people to Haiti after their earthquake, then to treat the people stricken in the subsequent horrendous disease outbreak following, as brought in to them by U.N. "Peace" workers, after their assignment in a disease-ridden country.

Most sane people would remember this, as well:

Cuba leads fight against Ebola in Africa as west frets about border security

The island nation has sent hundreds of health workers to help control the deadly infection while richer countries worry about their security – instead of heeding UN warnings that vastly increased resources are urgently needed

Monica Mark in Lagos
Sat 11 Oct 2014 19.05 EDT

As the official number of Ebola deaths in west Africa’s crisis topped 4,000 last week – experts say the actual figure is at least twice as high – the UN issued a stark call to arms. Even to simply slow down the rate of infection, the international humanitarian effort would have to increase massively, warned secretary-general Ban Ki-moon.

“We need a 20-fold resource mobilisation,” he said. “We need at least a 20-fold surge in assistance – mobile laboratories, vehicles, helicopters, protective equipment, trained medical personnel, and medevac capacities.”

But big hitters such as China or Brazil, or former colonial powers such France and the UK, have not been stepping up to the plate. Instead, the single biggest medical force on the Ebola frontline has been a small island: Cuba.

That a nation of 11 million people, with a GDP of $6,051 per capita, is leading the effort says much of the international response. A brigade of 165 Cuban health workers arrived in Sierra Leone last week, the first batch of a total of 461. In sharp contrast, western governments have appeared more focused on stopping the epidemic at their borders than actually stemming it in west Africa. The international effort now struggling to keep ahead of the burgeoning cases might have nipped the outbreak in the bud had it come earlier.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/cuba-leads-fights-against-ebola-africa

They have always been known all around the world, everywhere but here, for their dedication to their work and to helping people, and they have always been highly value. There is no doubt they are sorely needed in Guatemala, and that they will do their very best.

Still going strong ever since the Revolution, and they do it, the ones who don't move to the US for the big bucks, because they are decent, humane, moral people.

Good for every one of them.

Thank you, Mike.