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Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 03:50 PM Sep 2014

Cuba sending medical teams to fight Ebola - CBS

Meanwhile, America is sending money, bombers, and troops to fight another useless war.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cuba-sending-medical-teams-to-fight-ebola/

HAVANA -- Members of a Cuban medical brigade will begin arriving in Ebola-struck Sierra Leone at the beginning of October.

Cuba's Public Health Minister Roberto Morales announced today. He said the 165-member team will include 62 doctors and 103 nurses. All, he said, have more than 15 years' experience and have previously served in medical cooperation missions abroad.

The Cubans will make up the largest contingent of foreign health care workers committed thus far to the fight against Ebola in West Africa.

There are currently 4,000 Cuban health workers -- 2,500 of them doctors -- providing services in 32 African countries. However, the group going to Sierra Leone will be the first to work in a country where Ebola is present.

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Cuba sending medical teams to fight Ebola - CBS (Original Post) Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 OP
Wow mshasta Sep 2014 #1
Cuba is great at training doctors FrodosPet Sep 2014 #2
DURec leftstreet Sep 2014 #3
Fantastic news Marrah_G Sep 2014 #4
Wonderful doctors flamingdem Sep 2014 #5
we need to step up to the plate dembotoz Sep 2014 #6

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)
2. Cuba is great at training doctors
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 04:59 PM
Sep 2014

Hopefully they can start to focus on training carpenters, plumbers, roofers, and electricians.

It's a lot easier to stay healthy in a clean, mold-free house with a solid roof.

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