Academic nominates Cuban medical brigades for Nobel Peace Prize

“Cuba, a country harassed for more than 60 years, has shown the world that other types of human relationships are possible,” Gordon told Prensa Latina, adding that a clear example of this is this group of health professionals. its services to 29 nations to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

He explained that the members of the Henry Reeve Contingent treated some 550,000 patients and saved the lives of more than 12,400 of them in recent months, thus responding to the need for solidarity and international cooperation in the face of the health crisis in the world. Gordon said.

As part of the arguments in favor of the Nobel nomination, the also academic and economist stressed that prior to the current pandemic, 28 of these Cuban health brigades traveled to 22 countries to care for the victims of floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and epidemics , including Ebola in the West. Africa and cholera in Haiti.

Gordon also praised the 15-year existence of the Henry Reeve Contingent, which he called “memorable,” whose humanitarian actions involved some 9,000 Cuban health professionals who provided medical care to four million people and saved more than 89,000 lives, he said.

The also vice president of the ‘Broad Front for Democracy’ party recalled that Cuba is one of the 30 countries that are developing candidate vaccines for immunization against Covid-19.

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