Cuban Medical Cooperation in
Haiti: Excellent, Says PAHO
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 25 (acn) The Director of the Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO), Mirta Roses, said Cuba’s medical cooperation
in Haiti is excellent and wonderful.
During a visit to La Paz University Hospital, one of the three
facilities of this type where Cuban personnel are currently working
in the Haitian capital, she said: “At the beginning we were
desperate because we could not get our team in touch with the Cuban
medical brigade working here. We wanted to let them know that PAHO’s
ProMed medical center was active.”
“As the Cubans were already in Haiti before the earthquake,
they were better prepared,” she added.
Roses announced that PAHO will continue coordinating international
cooperation, and collaborating with Haiti and with the Dominican
Republic, particularly in the border, where the Dominicans are providing
assistance.
She explained that many volunteers continue arriving but, due to
the lack of infrastructure, they are beginning a selection process
because the kind of people needed today is different from those
needed at first and they are being located in places where there
is the necessary logistical supply and organization.
The PAHO executive stressed that although the priority is to provide
medical assistance to the victims of the earthquake, it is also
necessary to re-implement the programs against tuberculosis, HIV
and malaria.
“We are beginning to work in vaccination programs, so I don’t
think there will be any major epidemic catastrophes in Haiti,”
she concluded.
Taken
from the web site (www.cubanews.ain.cu/)
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