San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba - Confirming the international recognition of the Cuban health system is the purpose of the 106 employees as followers of the work program started half a century ago by our country with the aim of highlighting the importance of care primary on the principle of free services and contribution to universal access.
Yamile Borrego Morales, head of Health Care Department in San Antonio de los Baños states that Venezuela remains the country most benefited with 71 workers. Also the Cuban presence in Brazil with 25 colleagues, 3 in Bolivia, Ecuador 5, 1 in Angola and 1 in Timor Leste.
Borrego confirmed that Cuban medical aid began since the very beginning of the revolution and continue on the path of the first group that traveled to Chile in 1960, to meet the victims of the earthquake, which continued in 1963, when was the first specialists brigade who worked in Algeria.
Our partners recognized for their scientific excellence and unwavering social projection alongside the poorest world, give samples of the best values that distinguish our medical professionals, including humanism, solidarity, professional ethics and internationalism.