Panama City, Panama
A group of 220 Cuban health professionals arrived in Panama on Thursday, despite the rejection of the United States, to help the Central American country in its fight against a pandemic that has completely overwhelmed the current health system.
“Medical reinforcement arrives at health system with the aim of contributing to the high demand in our hospitals, ”Health Minister Luis Francisco Sucre noted on his Twitter account.
“They are 100% specialists in different areas of intensive care, internal medicine, pulmonology, cardiology and respiratory therapy. In addition (ha) specialists in nursing support,” said Alessandro Ganci, advisor to the Panamanian Ministry of Health.
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For its part, the Cuban embassy in Panama celebrated the arrival of its “white-robed heroes,” as they say in these missions.
On December 15, the Panamanian government announced that it would hire doctors from Cuba, the United States, Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia to face covid-19.
With a population of 4.2 million, Panama has the highest number of pandemic infections in Central America, with more than 220,000 cases accumulated and 3,664 deaths.
After reopening most of its economic activities between September and October, the country is in full swing, with 40,000 new infections and half a thousand deaths in 18 days.