Periodico 26

These past few days, doctors lending their services in Bolivia and Ecuador have returned to the homeland, leaving behind their patients, families with few resources, but very grateful to those who treated their ailments, living as neighbors in their communities.

First, it was the surprise. I could not imagine it, and I was astonished when I discovered that the tender young woman who greeted me with much affection in the corridors of Fort Tiuna, in Caracas, Venezuela, the birthplace of Simón Bolívar, was Dixi María Peña Martínez, the daughter of two close colleagues from the provincial radio station: Abel and Marina.

Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel has extolled as exemplary the work of 40 Cuban doctors from the Henry Reeve medical contingent in Mozambique where they went on an emergency mission to assist people following lethal hurricane Idai.

Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez highlighted in Havana Tuesday the solidarity work of the Cuban medical brigade in a field hospital sent to Mozambique, where they treated 4,000 patients in the first week.

Cuban Vice President and Health Minister, Roberto Morales Ojeda, said on Monday in the city of Manzanillo that there are over 400 thousand health professionals offering their services in about 165 countries.

The Cuban Medical Brigade in Guatemala celebrates today 20 years of uninterrupted work in this Central American country, after the arrival of the first doctors to deal with the damage caused by Hurricane Mitch.

Cuban health collaborators in Uruguay remembered the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, commemorating the 55th anniversary of the Cuban international medical collaboration.

Cuban neurosurgeon Norbery Jorge Rodríguez de La Paz is currently providing medical care to the population of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, severely affected by an earthquake in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region September 7, leaving more than 300 dead.