Panama City, Panama
A group of 220 Cuban health workers arrived in Panama on Thursday, despite the United States’ rejection, to assist the Central American country in its fight against a pandemic that has completely overwhelmed its health system.
Medical confirmation is coming health care system with the aim of contributing to the high demand in our hospitals, ”said Health Minister Luis Francisco Sucre on his Twitter account.
“They are 100% specialists from different areas of intensive care, internal medicine, pulmonology, cardiology and respiratory therapy. In addition, there are specialists who support the nursing,” explains Alessandro Ganci, advisor to the Panamanian Ministry of Health.
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The Cuban Embassy in Panama, in turn, celebrated the arrival of its “heroes in white coats,” as these missions are called.
On December 15, the Panamanian government announced that it would hire doctors from Cuba, the United States, Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia to face the COVID-19.
With a population of 4.2 million, Panama has the highest number of pandemic infections in all of Central America, with more than 220,000 cumulative cases and 3,664 deaths.
After reopening most of its economic activity between September and October, the country is booming, with 40,000 new infections and half a thousand dead in 18 days.