Cuban diplomatic sources inform that over a hundred doctors from the island give aid to the victims of the natural disasters lashing several Bolivian regions that are caused by the El Nino phenomena.
Fatal Floods Drench Bolivia
“We have more than 100 doctors working with the evacuees and victims of the floods and rains and will remain until necessary,” Rafael Dausa, Cuban ambassador, informed in a communique released here.
Cuban doctors who have been here since January, immediately answered the call to help rural and native communities, particularly the departments of Santa Cruz and Beni as well as El Chaco in Cochabamba. They will remain in 20 evacuation camps offering medical aid.
On February 2, 2006 the Cuban “Henry Reeve” Medical Brigade arrived in Bolivia in answer to an emergency that affected more than 40,000 families.
In the past year the Cuban government donated 20 hospitals, 11 eye centers and 564 tons of medicines and medical equipment for the attention to the population.
To date, the doctors have given attention to 3.5 million citizens of this nation saving 4,520 persons and performing 64,687 eye operations.
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