Kingston, Jamaica, 8 April 2021.- For nine months, Cuban health professionals who provide medical services in the Turks and Caicos Islands have contributed to the confrontation of COVID 19 and other diseases in that British overseas territory.
Doctors and nurses from the Greatest Island in the Antilles, who are part of the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics, arrived in the Turks and Caicos Islands in July 2020. Since then, they have conducted 13,224 medical consultations; 42,308 nursing procedures; 123 surgeries; and have contributed to saving 101 lives.
To date, 57 brigades of Cuban professionals, attached to the aforementioned Contingent, have contributed to the confrontation of the pandemic in 40 countries.
In May 2017, the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade was awarded the WHO’s Dr. LEE Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health, in recognition of emergency care it has provided to millions of people affected by disasters and epidemics, since its creation in September 2005.
