Kingston, Jamaica, 14 April 2021. Conversing with Dr. Armando Arronte Villamarín, head of the Cuban Medical Brigade in Jamaica, we learned about the work carried out during the first quarter of this year by our health professionals serving in this Caribbean island.
Doctor Arronte Villamarín specified that between January and March, the Cuban brigade contributed to saving 1,773 lives and conducted 128,117 medical consultations, 157,058 nursing procedures, and 1,012 surgeries, which have made this group worthy of the gratitude and recognition not only of the authorities in the four health regions of the Caribbean nation; but also, and very especially, of the people of Jamaica, who have described their performance as excellent.
The work carried out by the Cuban Medical Brigade, said the head of the brigade, continues to raise the thought of the Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro Ruz, when he expressed: Go ahead, generous defenders of health and life, defeaters of pain and death!
At this time, Cuban professionals have been assigned to the country´s 14 parishes, providing medical services in primary care health centres, hospitals, cancer and rehabilitation centres, the National Laboratory and the Ministry of Health and Wellness.
Cuba and Jamaica’s cooperation in public health began in 1976, the year in which a group of fourteen Cuban doctors travelled to the island to provide their services at the Savanna la Mar Hospital in Westmoreland. Since then, the Medical Brigade has been faithful to its purpose of providing an excellent service and helping to strengthen the ties of friendship between the two Caribbean countries.
