As of 22 October 2014, a delegation of 53 Cuban health workers arrived in Liberia to help fight the Ebola outbreak. The Cuban team consists of nurses, doctors, epidemiologists and intensive care specialists. Having received an initial Ebola training in Cuba, all team members received a second training in Liberia on how to work in an Ebola treatment unit.

“Once we heard about the situation of the spread of Ebola in three countries of West-Africa, we decided to come, we decided to join the international effort to fight against Ebola,” says Juan Carlos Dupuy, the medical team leader of the Cuban delegation. Cuba is known the world over for its ability to train excellent doctors and nurses who can go out to help countries in need.

Being one of the first foreign medical teams to respond to the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, the Cuban delegation will stay in the country for 6 months. They will work in shifts in smaller teams mainly in the newly opened Ebola treatment unit located at the former Ministry of Defence compound in Monrovia.

For more information, please contact:

Pieter Desloovere, Communications Officer
WHO Liberia
Mobile: +231 888 135 619
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