A year after arriving here to join the frontline battle against the coronavirus, the Cuban medical team is to stay here until early October, at the request of Barbadian authorities.
To seal the deal, representatives of the Ministry of Health and the government in Havana, Wednesday signed yet another six-month extension agreement – the third – at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Culloden Road.
In this Cuban embassy photo, Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland (second from left), executive chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, signed the agreement with Cuba’s Ambassador Sergio Pastrana, flanked by Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM David Comissiong (left) and Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George (right).
The 113 members of the Cuban Henry Reeve Medical Brigade. including nurses, doctors and lab technicians, are stationed at the Harrison Point coronavirus hospital, polyclinics, the Best-Dos Santos Public Health Laboratory and the Grantley Adams International Airport.
The first team which arrived in April last year consists of 98 registered nurses and a medical doctor. They were joined at the start of this year by four lab technicians and 11 specialist doctors in paediatric and adult intensive care, respiratory ailments, communicable diseases and physical therapy. (BT)
