Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, Cuba’s doctors have been deployed in 35 countries and have attended to close to 300,000 patients. This example of medical internationalism is part of a long and inspiring tradition that stretches to the 60s.
Cuba’s doctors to the rescue
The efforts by Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade have been the most significant example of medical internationalism during the COVID-19 pandemic. The brigade was set up in 2005 by Fidel Castro.