11 nurses depart for Trinidad and Tobago

HAVANA (CMC):

A group of 11 female nurses left Havana on Friday for Trinidad and Tobago as part of the efforts in helping the twin-island republic deal with the deadly coronavirus.

Coordinator of the group, Yaquelín Ramírez Díaz, said that the nurses will work with the professionalism that characterises Cuban medicine and will face the pandemic together with the health professionals in Port-of-Spain.

Ramírez Díaz denounced the campaign of the United States Government to discredit the value of Cuban health workers, noting that the Cuban medical workers, who are also members of the Henry Reeve International Contingent, were saving lives.

In Trinidad and Tobago, they will have to work with patients in the intensive care services, according to Anabel González Miranda, a graduate in nursing and a paediatric intensivist.

Edina Clara Byfield Cooper, a nurse with 30 years’ experience, said patients are like family, and she hopes that her work in Trinidad and Tobago will meet the expectations that Cuba and the Revolution have placed on it.

Teresa Amarelle Boué, a member of the Political Bureau and secretary general of the Federation of Cuban Women, in her farewell speech, emphasised the opportunities that the Cuban Revolution has given to women.