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#'Henry Reeve' Medical Brigades, #Covid-19, #Cuba, #International Cooperation, Cuban Doctors, ITALY
The city of Crema, Italy, once again recognizes the solidarity of the Henry Reeve Cuban Brigade with its inhabitants. This morning, the mayor, Stefania Bonaldi, titled the square of the Crema Hospital as “Henry Reeve” Cuban Medical Brigade square.
The Mayor of Crema, Stefania Bonaldi, the Cuban Ambassador to Italy, Josè Carlos Rodriguez Ruiz, the President of the National Association of Italy-Cuba Friendship, Marco Papacci, and the General Director of the ASST Hospital of Crema, Ida Maria Ada Ramponi, were present.
The President of the National Association of Italy-Cuba Friendship, Marco Papacci, recalled how the brigade of Cuban doctors exalted the humanist principle of Cuban medicine and that the human being and not profit is the center of Cuban society, whose ideals inspired the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz.
Stefania Bonaldi, mayor of the city of Crema said that “this gesture is the visible representation of a nesting in the heart of our community, something that already happened several months ago and that at this moment we formalize, declaring it publicly, making it testimony, constituting it common patrimony.”
He continued his speech affirming that in the hard moments that the community lived because of COVID-19 “paralyzing the lives of all, endangering the lives of many, taking several lives,” was when the Cuban doctors of the Henry Reeve brigade arrived, “erecting a wall against what threatened us, using the concrete of competence, passion, compassion and solidarity.” Continue reading