EBOLA WEST AFRICA: CUBA LEADS WAY ON MEDICAL EFFORT (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Thursday, October 23, 2014, 09:34

Cuba has sent a second group of medical staff to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak.

The 83 doctors and nurses will treat Ebola patients in Liberia and Guinea.

Another contingent of 165 Cuban healthcare professionals travelled to Sierra Leone a few weeks ago.

Cuba is now the biggest single provider of healthcare workers to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, more than the Red Cross or richer nations, the World Health Organization says.

"Cuba has provided the numbers and the people," said Jose Luis Di Fabio, the WHO representative on the Caribbean island.

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