PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO
REITERATES MEDICAL CARE OFFER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HIS REMARKS DURING THE
TV ROUND TABLE.
Our country is ready to send, in the small hours of morning, 100
clinicians and specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine, who at dawn
tomorrow, Saturday, could be in Houston International Airport, Texas, the
closest to the region struck by the tragedy, in order to be transferred by air,
sea or river to the isolated shelters, facilities and neighborhoods in the city
of New Orleans, where the population and families are that require emergency
medical care or first aid.
These Cuban personnel would be carrying backpacks with
Likewise,
A third group of 500 specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine could
be arriving in the morning of Sunday, September 4. Thus, the 1100 said medical
doctors, with the resources described tantamount to 26.4 tons of medications
and diagnosis kits, would be caring for the neediest persons in the aftermath
of hurricane Katrina.
These medical doctors have the necessary international experience and
elementary knowledge of the English language that would allow them to
communicate with the patients.
We stand ready waiting for the US authorities’ response.