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World-Renowned Cuban Medical Personnel is the Largest Health Contingency in Haiti.

Tehran, February 17, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - Cuban doctors and medical teams have been involved in a truly humanitarian assistance campaign in Haiti since the early days of a massive quake that hit the island nation.

Cuba was the first country to send a large contingent of its world-renowned health professionals to Haiti immediately after the 7.5 magnitude earthquake. Ironically Cuba’s pivotal role in aftermath of the disaster has received scant media coverage.

While the sending of thousands of fully armed US troops to Haiti was being given huge coverage by the Western media, there was almost no mention of Cuba or other leading Latin American assistance to Haiti. ‘It is striking that there has been virtually no mention in the media of the fact that Cuba had several hundred health personnel on the ground before any other country,’ said David Sanders, a professor of public health from Western Cape University in South Africa.

Local people from quake stricken areas view Cuban medical personnel as superbly skilled. ‘They are excellent and marvellous,’ says Dr. Mirta Roses, the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) currently active in Haiti. The Cuban team has been working round the clock with operating rooms open 18 hours everyday.

Cuba now has about 1000 medical personnel in Haiti including hundreds of local Haitian doctors that have obtained their medical trainings in Cuba, making it the largest contingent on the ground, while there has been very little Western media coverage of this fact.

By comparison another international medical team called Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors without borders) with approximately 270 medics has been given extensive media coverage, frequently conducting interviews in front of television cameras.

Cuban doctors examine a wounded Haitian

in Port Principe.

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