Cuban doctors will provide assistance in Calabria
A group of 50 Cuban doctors will provide assistance in Calabria, southern Italy, to help keep the territory’s wards and hospitals open.

Author: Granma | internet@granma.cu

January 12, 2023 09:01:25

A group of 50 Cuban doctors will provide assistance in Calabria, southern Italy, to help keep the territory’s wards and hospitals open.

Roberto Occhiuto, president of that region, who received the doctors, said in his Facebook profile that on January 2 they will begin the course at the University of Calabria, and as soon as they are ready they will start working in the hospitals.

Calabria seeks to guarantee all the tools at its disposal for the care of citizens, in the face of the health emergency, Occhiuto wrote on the social network; and added: “they will help us during this complex period, in which we have a shortage of healthcare personnel. In the meantime, we continue with the competitions to hire Italian doctors.”

“We are still looking for Italian doctors through competitions, but now the danger was that we would have to close the Health facilities due to lack of personnel. It is our duty to face the emergency,” he added.

In 2020, Cuban brigades of the Henry Reeve Medical Contingent assisted the regions of Crema and Turin, in Italy, during the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Translated by ESTI

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