The Cuba-Venezuela binational cooperation remains in force through its international health program, so this Wednesday, July 8, a new contingent of doctors from the Che Guevara Brigade arrived in the city of Maracaibo, in addition to the previous advances in the necessary task of facing and cutting off the core sources of covid-19 in the entity.
At La Chinita International Airport, the 47 health professionals were received by Mayor Willy Casanova, in the company of the Executive Director, César Garrido; the director of Health Maracaibo, Lismar Rojas and the head of the Social Missions in Zulia, Jorge Luis Vásquez.
"Thank you, men and women who know how to put aside fear, worries, and personal interests to put forward something as sublime and sacred as solidarity among peoples," Casanova told the delegation, according to a press release from the mayor's office of Maracaibo, Zulia state.
This group represents the fourth brigade sent to the Maracaibo municipality and the sixth to arrive in the country, at the instructions of the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro. The doctors will immediately join the 159 colleagues who remain distributed in the 54 sectors with the highest presence of positive cases, whose mission is to delve into house-to-house sweeps to achieve early detection of patients, along with the Venezuelan medical team that meets daily to monitor epidemiological behavior and study its different dimensions.
The brigade is made up of specialists in clinical laboratory, podiatry, nursing, endoscopy, intensivists, technicians and general practitioners, prepared to strengthen the actions that are being carried out in the Zulia capital, with emphasis on the epicenter of the Las Pulgas market, from which daily confirm new cases linked to the disease.
