In the medical response to Ebola, Cuba is punching far above its weight
......On Thursday, 165 health professionals from the country arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to join the fight against Ebola ? the largest medical team of any single foreign nation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). And after being trained to deal with Ebola, a further 296 Cuban doctors and nurses will go to Liberia and Guinea, the other two countries worst hit by the crisis.
Cuba is, by any measure, not a wealthy country. It had a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of slightly more than $68 billion in 2011, according to the World Bank, putting it a few places higher than Belarus. At $6,051, its GDP per capita was less than one-sixth of Britain's. However, [U]its official response to Ebola seems far more robust than many countries far wealthier than it ...../U]
Cuba's universal health-care system enables such an export. .....
Reuters reports that Cuba currently has around 50,000 health workers working in 66 countries...
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......On Thursday, 165 health professionals from the country arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to join the fight against Ebola ? the largest medical team of any single foreign nation, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). And after being trained to deal with Ebola, a further 296 Cuban doctors and nurses will go to Liberia and Guinea, the other two countries worst hit by the crisis.
Cuba is, by any measure, not a wealthy country. It had a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of slightly more than $68 billion in 2011, according to the World Bank, putting it a few places higher than Belarus. At $6,051, its GDP per capita was less than one-sixth of Britain's. However, [U]its official response to Ebola seems far more robust than many countries far wealthier than it ...../U]
Cuba's universal health-care system enables such an export. .....
Reuters reports that Cuba currently has around 50,000 health workers working in 66 countries...
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