Saved lives, dedication and professionalism is the mark on the more than 46,000 patients treated so far by the Henry Reeve International contingent brigade that last June arrived in Kuwait, a small Persian Gulf country with a population of about four million 200,000 inhabitants.

That is the feeling that from the emirate, Dr. Rody Cervantes Silva, head of the group, made up of 29 doctors and 31 nursing graduates, who, in addition to COVID-19, treat other medical emergencies such as polytrauma, cerebrovascular accidents and acute lung edema, among others.

"The hands and hearts of Cuban medical personnel are also in one part of the more than 163,000 recovered people here since the pandemic began and that makes us proud," the doctor said.

The brigade, specialized in confronting disasters and major epidemics, is an example of altruism and consecration and has so far carried out 390,028 nursing procedures and saved 1,801 lives, endorsing its prestige and for this reason it received recognition from the nation's authorities, including the Kuwait National Workers' Union and Ministry of Health authorities.

Cervantes Silva said that they work under extreme security measures, given the growing increase in those infected by SARS-CoV-2 among the local population, that, until February 10, had more than 173,900 cases, according to a report of the multinational Telesur.

At the beginning of January of this year, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez welcomed a part of the medical brigade of the contingent Henry Reeve, which for more than six months worked in really intense conditions to confront the pandemic, “with an excellent job from a medical point of view," the president acknowledged.