Mayabeque, Cuba: Founders and prominent members of the Henry Reeve Contingent appeared this Friday at the Round Table program dedicated to the 15th anniversary of that legendary medical structure, founded by Fidel on September 19, 2005 and acclaimed around the world for his generous contribution in favor of the health and lives of millions of people.
The founder of the Henry Reeve Contingent and Director of the Central Unit for Medical Cooperation of the Ministry of Public Health, Doctor Jorge Delgado Gustillo, said that in May of 1960 the embryo was produced, when on that date a strong earthquake occurred in Chile and the President of that time, Salvador Allende, accepted our medical support.
Then arose the permanent collaboration with Algeria, extended to 150 countries with more than 450 thousand health professionals.
The member of the Henry Reeve Contingent, Marci Calderón Martínez, highlighted the work of the women who make up the Contingent or who have previously carried out health missions, since they have had to overcome natural disasters, illnesses little known in Cuba and they have always been there, at the head of the brigades.
The terrain is usually explored to set up the hospital and tents, Calderón Martínez said and recalled the medical brigade that went to Nepal where a field hospital was set up with almost all the specialties and techniques in the midst of multiple aftershocks after the earthquake.
