Jamaica’s health system will have more Cuban personnel
Havana, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) Jamaica’s health system will have more collaborators from Cuba, a country that has been helping in this field since 1976 and today it has more than 200 experts in that Caribbean nation.
José Armando Afronte, head of the medical mission there, explained that some 290 Cuban health professionals will join the brigade that provides services in Jamaica, at the request of the local people.
Recently,” explained Afronte, “the ministries of health of both sides tested professionals from the largest of the Antilles and chose those who will join the task that began in 1976 with 14 doctors.
At the moment, some 259 collaborators provide their services there, such as doctors, nurses, technologists and electromedical engineers,” said Afronte, quoted by the newspaper Granma.
Some 18 of them are part of the Miracle Mission, thanks to which more than 16,000 operations were carried out to improve quality or restore vision to an important part of the population, said Afronte.
The historical record of Cuban medical cooperation in Jamaica until May 2019 counts 1,447,015 cases seen, among them 261,350 cases of pediatrics, 30,761 surgical interventions performed and 73,331 doses of vaccines applied.
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
