CARACAS, VENEZUELA.–With the goal of increasing support to the COVID-19 battle in Venezuela, 93 members of the Henry Reeve Contingent recently traveled to the Bolivarian Republic.
Dr. Reinol Delfín García, head of the permanent medical mission in the country reported that the group is composed of six brigades including clinical experts, intensive care specialists, pulmonologists, cardiologists, aestheticians, epidemiologists and intensive care nurses, who will work for three months in ‘red zones’ at Comprehensive Diagnosis Centers (CDI) treating patients who have tested positive for SARS-COV-2, in the states of Zulia, Lara, Carabobo, Anzoátegui and Bolívar, as well as the Capital District.
Aboard the same aircraft arriving in Venezuela were 100 specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine, to strengthen primary care provided at neighborhood clinics in at-risk areas of Lara, Bolívar, Anzoátegui, Monagas, Carabobo and Aragua.
On behalf of the Bolivarian government, Gerardo Briceño, deputy minister of Resources, Technology and Regulation at the Venezuelan Ministry of People’s Power for Healthcare, welcomed the arriving brigades, explaining that the country is now facing two battlefronts of critical importance: “the economic and media war being waged by the United States, and this scourge that has humanity in mourning.”
This group gives continuity to the presence of the Henry Reeve Contingent in Venezuela, where, over the past five months, a brigade of its advisors have supported, with positive results, the more than 22,000 collaborators serving on the permanent Cuban medical mission.
