Posted on 03/22/2020 8:21:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
HAVANA - Communist-run Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus at the request of the worst-affected region Lombardy.
The Caribbean island has sent its “armies of white robes” to disaster sites around the world largely in poor countries since its 1959 revolution. Its doctors were in the front lines in the fight against cholera in Haiti and against ebola in West Africa in the 2010s.
“We are all afraid but we have a revolutionary duty to fulfill, so we take out fear and put it to one side,” Leonardo Fernandez, 68, an intensive care specialist, told Reuters late on Saturday shortly before his brigade’s departure.
“He who says he is not afraid is a superhero, but we are not superheros, we are revolutionary doctors.”
This is the sixth medical brigade Cuba has sent in recent days to combat the spread of the new disease abroad. It has sent contingents to socialist allies Venezuela and Nicaragua as well as Jamaica, Suriname and Grenada.
We are going to fulfill an honorable task, based on the principle of solidarity,” said Graciliano Díaz, 64.
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Cuban doctors hold an image of late Cuban President Fidel Castro during a farewell ceremony before departing to Italy to assist, amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Havana, Cuba, March 21, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
When they see what real hospitals look like they may not come back.
What if the Cubans, with their superior health system, solve the virus problem and reverse the pandemic? /s
Boy, does Italy love their Communists!
Bet they fake their own deaths and never return.
If they come in at the end, they can be heroes.
“Ok guys put on your masks and tend to these patients on those beds”
Cuban doctors “ you mean you have masks..and they’re free? Wow beds . Never saw one since med school”
Now that picture is worth a thousand words, not only are they holding their saviors picture but some said how can we up this picture, “give them flags”! They are use to working with pliers and wood saws they’re gonna be lost
Could be a higher than reported breakout in Cuba and they’ve gone to Italy for on-the-job training.
Typically the Cuban government will take almost all the fees and give their doctors starvation wages.
What happened to NGOs like Doctors Without Borders? They are eager to help illegal migrants but when actual countries are in trouble they’re nowhere to be found.
What could go wrong?
Great question.
Let’s look them up.
Here they are...
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/?ref=donate-header
Still helping migrants while asking for donations.....to help fight coronavirus.
Hmmmmm....
Let the Cubans take along Michael Moore.
Cuban doctors head to Italy aka escaping Cuba.
Will each one have a government “handler” to keep the doctor from defecting??
If Italy had a brain, they’d refuse entry to the commie scum.
How many will defect?
No doubt the Cuban government has their families held hostage.
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