From Ebola to Covid 19: Cuban medical missions
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Door-to-door visit by Cuban medical staff to screen for suspected cases of Covid-19 © RFI / Domitille Piron
By: Caroline Paré Follow
50 min
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Cuba has sent many back-up doctors around the world.
First in the Caribbean region, but also on the African continent (Togo, Angola, South Africa) and as far as Italy.
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The crisis has revived Cuban medical missions abroad: solidarity action, which is also a financial windfall for Havana.
A revival for this “Cuban-style medical diplomacy”, which Havana began in the 1960s and has long been denounced as a propaganda tool, by opponents of the Castro regime, led by the United States ...
Domitille Piron
, RFI correspondent in Cuba, looks back on these emergency missions and longer-term cooperation program by following the course of an African student in medical school.
Claire Bargelès
, correspondent in Johannesburg, met two Cuban doctors, temporarily assigned to South Africa, the country on the continent hardest hit by the coronavirus epidemic.
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