{"id":1025,"date":"2020-03-20T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2020-05-04T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:00:23","slug":"cuba-sends-53-doctors-and-nurses-to-fight-covid-19-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-sends-53-doctors-and-nurses-to-fight-covid-19-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Sends 53 Doctors and Nurses to Fight Covid-19 in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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At the entrance to the hospital, a sign reads: “You are the real heroes”, Bergamo, Italy, March, 2020. | Photo: Twitter\/ @orlandoQva<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Cubans, who traveled to Sierra Leone to fight the Ebola virus in 2014, \u200b\u200bwill arrive in Lombardy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuban health authorities announced on Thursday that the country will send 53 health professionals to Lombardy, Italy, to help contain the new coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 53 doctors and nurses have experience in caring for these types \nof diseases. In 2014, they traveled to Sierra Leone in West Africa to \nfight the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Cuban authorities, the arrival in Lombardy will take place next Saturday, March 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The regional health counselor Giulio Gallera announced that the European country “requested medical support from Cuba given the shortage of health personnel in Italian hospitals.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Welfare Councillor for the Lombardy Region Giulio Gallera \nsaid, ‘We will have staff from Venezuela, China, Cuba, they are doctors \nwho will be given a place to live, but we need everyone’s skills.'”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gallera’s request reached the competent \nauthorities of the Caribbean island through the Cuban ambassador in \nItaly, Jose Carlos Rodriguez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cuban doctors and nurses will join the ten professionals from China who arrived this Thursday in Milan, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Cuban and Chinese medical personnel will \nbe sent to a field hospital in Bergamo, the region of Lombardy most \naffected by the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Italy has recorded more than 3,000 deaths from the spread of the disease, surpassing China as the country with the most deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

source: Telesur<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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