Cuban Planes Continue to Arrive to Haiti with Doctors and Medical Supplies
Cuba continues to send healthcare professionals to add to the more than 400 already working in Haiti, along with supply planes, including one that arrived with some 10 tons of medicine and supplies
PORT AU PRINCE, January 16.— Cuban planes with medical supplies and healthcare and emergency specialists continue to arrive at the International Airport in Port Au Prince, Haiti to help out with the devastation following last week’s 7.3 earthquake.
Among the additional Cuban doctors arriving in Haiti over the weekend was a team of 32 Haitian doctors and 3 surgical teams of recent graduates from the School of Medicine in Santiago de Cuba.
The team of Cuban trained Haitian doctors immediately began working in the city parks and sports fields: two of the spaces were Haitians who have lost their homes have been gathering. They also set up preventative posts to treat people against infections.
More than 500 Haitian doctors have graduated from Cuban schools; some 200 of which are in Haiti specializing and working as resident doctors or interns and who have joined the Cuban brigades of health professionals working in Haiti.
Over the weekend, in places where the Cuban doctors are working around the clock, it is common to see open displays of thanks from the Haitians and words such as: «Viva Cuba», «Viva Fidel», «Gracias Raúl», spoke in Creole, French, Spanish and even English.
Cuba continues to send healthcare professionals to add to the more than 400 already working in Haiti, along with supply planes, including one that arrived with some 10 tons of medicine and supplies.
