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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran Health Minister Alba Consuelo Flores said Thursday that a Cuban medical brigade will enroll local doctors in the fight against the new coronavirus that spreads in the impoverished Central American country.
Communist-ruled Cuba has sent its “white robe armies” to crisis sites around the world, largely in poor countries since its 1959 revolution. He also sent doctors to Italy to help fight coronavirus.
“Right now, we’re seeing that fitness is making us sick, underqualified fitness, fitness that wants to be permanently replaced because it’s tired,” Flores said at a remote press conference.
Honduras has 426 cases of coronavirus and 35 deaths, according to a johns Hopkins University account.
The Cuban brigade consists of 4 emergency surgeons, two epidemiologists, six intensive care nurses and 4 biomedical technicians, he said, without specifying when they would arrive.
Honduras has about 4,000 doctors in 33 hospitals, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health, who serve a population of about 9. 2 million people, 62% of whom are in poverty.
Cubans arrived in Honduras in 1998 after being devastated by Hurricane Mitch, which killed more than 5,000 people. The program was suspended last year when the Honduran government did not renew the agreement.
(Reporting through Gustavo Palencia; Written through Stefanie Eschenbacher; Edited through Peter Cooney)