Cuban collaborators against Covid-19 in Kuwait

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Colaboradores cubanos refuerzan lucha contra la Covid-19 en KuwaitThe number of Cuban collaborators of the Henry Reeve brigade, specialized in disaster situations and major epidemics, has risen to 185, supporting the COVID-19 pandemic in Kuwait, where the virus has killed more than 800 people.

The group, which arrived in that Middle Eastern country at the beginning of June of this year, reinforces the actions at a time of epidemiological increase, where the Kuwaiti government deploys all its capacities, together with health personnel from the Island and from other countries.

Ciego de Ávila doctor Rody Cervantes Silva, head of the brigade, told Granma, via the Internet, that it is made up of 74 doctors from specialties such as Internal Medicine, Intensive Care, Anesthesiology, General Comprehensive Medicine and Neurosurgery, in addition to 110 nurses, distributed in five hospitals in the country, which has a population of more than 4 million inhabitants.

The brigade, whose members have an average age of 42 years, not only cares for patients with SARSCoV 2, but also is in charge of monitoring other medical conditions such as High Blood Pressure, Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases, tumors and traumas, among others.

The Vice Minister of Health and Kuwaiti authorities, in a meeting with the Cuban ambassador José Noriega Sánchez and executives of the medical brigade, recognized the contribution of the Cuban health professionals in the confrontation with a disease that has affected more than 130,000 people in the Arab country.

In the five months of work, Cuban personnel have treated more than 15,000 patients, saved more than 1,000 lives, and carried out a figure of more than 300,000 nursing procedures.