2018, Number 3
Ebola epidemic in Africa: Cuban medical experience in this international health emergency (VI)
Corona PRR
Language: Spanish
References: 2
Page: 215-225
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ABSTRACT
After the preparation of the Cuban professionals with the evaluation of the World Health Organization that authorized the work in the hospitals for the treatment of Ebola and with the termination of the English hospital of Kerry Town, the brigade began to fight the epidemic on the 5th of November 2014; progressively more compatriots were added as other hospitals were completed. At the end of December, the entire brigade was working together with the native staff, without any other foreign participation. The cooperation among the World Health Organization, the Ministry of Health of Sierra Leone, the decisive support of the Cuban embassy, the Ebola confrontation center of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba and the organization of its communist Party is presented for the benefit of efficient comprehensive attention that would allow the successful fulfillment of the mission proposed by humanity in times of contingency.REFERENCES