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Subject: Cuba's Unique Model of Medical Internationalism
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2075 ... April 28, 2020
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Cuba's Unique Model of Medical Internationalism
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In recent weeks, more than a dozen countries -- including two in Europe --
have requested and received Cuban doctors to cope with the Coronavirus
pandemic.
John Kirk, a professor at the Latin America program of Dalhousie University
in Nova Scotia, is author of Healthcare Without Borders and one of the
foremost experts on Cuba’s medical internationalism. Ten years ago, he
spent two months embedded with Cuba’s Henry Reeve medical emergency
brigade in El Salvador after a hurricane, to observe them. In all he has
interviewed 270 Cuban doctors and nurses during the course of his research.
John Kirk was interviewed by Cuba Standard.
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Cuba Standard (CS): What is the Henry Reeve Brigade?
John Kirk (JK): The Henry Reeve Brigade was formed in 2005. Responding to
the massive problems in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Cuba offered 1,400
medical personnel and 32 tons of medicine to help in New Orleans, which was
refused by the George W. Bush administration. Shortly afterwards, there was
a major health problem in the Kashmir area of Pakistan after an earthquake.
Cuba formed the brigade in response, and named it after an American who
fought in the first war of independence, 1868-1878, against Spanish
colonialism.
Since 2005, the Henry Reeve Brigade has been involved in all kinds of
natural medical emergencies. This is a brigade of several thousand
specially-trained doctors, nurses and technicians who go to natural
emergencies, whether it be earthquakes, hurricanes or epidemics. They have
been involved in emergencies in 16 countries, and counting. As a result of
the Coronavirus pandemic they have sent medical brigades to 16 countries.
No. 15 was Trinidad and Tobago; the British Virgin Islands were the latest.
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