The Cuban Government on Friday announced that it would send 165 healthcare workers to West Africa to help in the fight against Ebola Virus Disease.
Announcing this at a news conference at the World Health Organisation’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Cuba’s Minister of Public Health, Roberto Ojeda, said the first set of the workers would arrive in Sierra Leone in October.
Ojeda said that the Cuban health workers would include doctors, nurses, specialists in infection control, epidemiologists, intensive care specialists and social mobilisation officers. Continue..
The epidemic has been raging in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea since it was reported in March, 2014 and has also got into Nigeria and Senegal.
It is believed that no fewer than 2,300 people in West Africa had died of the disease in what is reported to be the worst of its outbreaks in history.
In her reaction, WHO Director-General, Margaret Chan, welcomed Cuba’s commitment and said that it would make a significant difference in Sierra Leone.
“If we are going to go to war with Ebola, we need the resources to fight.
“Cuba is famous in the world for its ability to train outstanding doctors and nurses and for its generosity in helping fellow countries on the route to progress,” Chan said.
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