Cuba’s Henry Reeve Brigades, 16 years of solidarity missions

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 Killer floods in Guatemala and a 7.6 degree earthquake in Pakistan were the first missions of doctors of the Cuban Henry Reeve Brigades that is celebrating its 16th anniversary on this day.

 

The main role of this specialized medical contingent, founded by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, is to cooperate immediately in any country suffering from catastrophes such as hurricanes, floods and other phenomena, as well as to face major epidemics.

Henry Reeve, the name that accompanies the island’s army of doctors, was that of a young American known to posterity as ‘the little Englishman’, who at the age of 19 traveled to Cuba to join the Liberation Army in a frank gesture of support to the emancipating cause fighting the Spanish colonialism in the second half of the 19th century.

In 2006, the Henry Reeve Contingent arrived in Indonesia to help that nation struck by an earthquake, as well as in 2010 to Chile and Haiti, the latter hit by the cholera epidemic.

But perhaps one of the most challenging missions for its members was that of Ebola, an epidemic that hit West Africa.

A group of 260 health professionals traveled in 2014 to Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, the countries hardest hit by the disease. They saved the lives of approximately 7,000 people.

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic -whose effects continue to hit the world- did not stopped Cuba’s medical solidarity.

By May 2020, the Caribbean island had contributed 2,300 health professionals distributed in 26 medical teams in the fight against the disease, according to data declared by Cuban Public Health Minister Jose Angel Portal, when he spoke at the World Health Organization Assembly.

The Henry Reeve Brigades arrived in Italy when the scenes and photographs of military trucks loading coffins in that country filled the social media.

They were applauded in the Principality of Andorra and Azerbaijan. For the first time, aid reached Europe, in the most sensitive moments when the disease was passing through Europe.

By September 2020, 43 brigades were active in 33 countries and 2,523 professionals were treating patients who were victims of the lethal disease.

In 2021, several groups have returned to the national territory after the work accomplished, with dissimilar origins among which stand out South Africa, Mexico, Panama, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, among others.

Cuba In Africa: When Africa Called…Cuba Answered.

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President of Cuba praises vaccination against Covid-19 in children.

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The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, praised the vaccination of children and adolescents and against Covid-19 , initiated in the country using the domestic vaccines Soberana and Abdala.

The president highlighted in his Twitter account the fact that after a year and a half of facing the pandemic and deeply regretting each death from this disease, the images of minors receiving their injections ‘are like the light at the end of the tunnel.’

Cuba became the first country to carry out a national childhood immunization campaign against Covid-19, after the Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices issued last Friday the authorization for the emergency use for Sovereign 02 among the Cuban population.

According to Dr. Ileana Morales, director of Science and Technological Innovation of the Ministry of Public Health, the vaccination schedule in pediatric ages comprises two fundamental stages.

The first is the vaccination of 78,200 pre-university students, the third year of technical-professional schools and the last year of pedagogical training, scheduled between September 3rd and October 3rd using the Abdala vaccine.

Science in Cuba from Fidel’s light.

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Talking about science in Cuba requires infinite pages with a beginning dedicated to the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, who would turn 95 on Friday.

 

Fidel was the promoter of a mega project in which several institutions that made up the West Havana Scientific Pole converge and where countless achievements have been made.

‘It is a pride in the middle of the special period to inaugurate this center, which is not a luxury, it is a promise of health and well-being for our people, it is a promise of income for our economy,’ Fidel said at the founding ceremony of the Molecular Immunology Center of Cuba, on December 5, 1994.

At the same time, other similar institutions had already started up and now there are more than 30, according to official data.

Their main objective is to promote the development of biotechnology, the medical-pharmaceutical industry and advanced technologies to deal with health problems, food, among other issues.

Since then, biopharmaceuticals and vaccines have been produced in Cuba and exported to five continents.

Just to mention a few, any Cuban child from birth is immunized against 13 diseases, including eight vaccines made in Cuba. The meningococcal and the hepatitis B recombinant vaccines, which have made an important social, economic and strategic contribution, make up the childhood vaccination scheme. On the other hand, the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center (CIGB) developed Heberprot-P, the only drug in the world to treat diabetic foot ulcers and whose validation is currently reaching several countries.

Also from the CIGB are Mambisa and Abdala, the latter is the first vaccine in Cuba and Latin America against Covid-19.

Another major scientific institution, founded in 1987, is that Immunoassay Center, which produces diagnostic kits for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C, alpha-fetoprotein in pregnant women, the detection of hypothyroidism in newborns, and immunoglobulins E, among others.

President of Cuba: Fidel Castro forged an emancipatory work.

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The historical leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro ‘forged an emancipatory work, established a hope for humanity,’ President Miguel Díaz-Canel tweeted.

 

The president paid tribute on Twitter to one of the most transcendental political figures of the 20th century on the 95th anniversary of his birth.

‘He resolutely and undefeatedly faced imperialism and grew with his people and their Revolution,’ he added.

Diaz-Canel commented that Fidel Castro was the best disciple of the Apostle José Martí, for which ‘he learned and integrated into his daily conduct the maxim that ‘doing is the best way of saying’.’

‘Thus he survived his work, he thought, organized the Revolution, led it, fought, triumphed,’ the President added.

FM describes US Senate’s amendment as aggression against Cuba.

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Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Thursday described the amendment approved by the United States Senate with the alleged intention of providing Internet to Cuban citizens as an ‘aggression’ against the Caribbean island.

 

The amendment was submitted by Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott to the budget resolution, and it requires that the Biden administration facilitates ‘free, open, and uncensored internet access for the Cuban people.’

On his Twitter account, the head of Cuban diplomacy stressed that this decision ‘contributes to the lucrative business of the subversive political machinery in Florida,’ from where calls to hatred and violence in Cuba are made.

Rodriguez stressed that the economic, commercial and financial blockade is the main obstacle to the Cuban people’s free and sovereign access to the Internet.

The Truth About Cuba: Anti-Government Protests Explained.

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Cuba administers more than 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines.

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Cuba has administered more than 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines or candidates developed in the country to fight the pandemic, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported on Tuesday.

 

Statistics released by MINSAP indicate that at on August 1, 10,061,236 doses had been administered of the Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus projects, developed by the Finlay Vaccines Institute (FVI), and the first vaccine in Cuba and Latin America, Abdala, designed by Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center(CIGB).

This way, 4,155,261 Cubans have already received at least the first injection of any of these products during the mass vaccination campaign, the health intervention, the intervention studies or clinical trials.

No to the blockade of the United States, No to intervention, Sovereignty cannot be negotiated.

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Beautiful images of the streets taken by Cubans to reaffirm the commitment of Cubans to their Revolution on July 17. Raúl Castro and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, led the mobilization in Havana.

In defense of their conquests, the Cuban people once again repeated: No to the blockade of the United States, No to intervention, Sovereignty cannot be negotiated.

Cuba is and will continue to be a country of peace, says president.

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Cuba is and will go on being a country of peace, President Miguel Díaz-Canel said.

 

On Twitter, Díaz-Canel called for the unity of the Cuban people and families.

Amid such difficult days, I call for the unity of our people and of all Cuban families, wherever they may be. #CubaPorLaPaz, he subscribed.

He added that ‘to defend the peace of our streets we will go on making every effort.’