[News] Cuba Sends Field Hospital to Help Mozambique amid Cyclone Idai

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  Cuba Sends Field Hospital to Help Mozambique amid Cyclone Idai

March 26, 2019
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Cuba's vice minister of Foreign Affairs Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cubas-UN-Ambassador-Highlights-Womens-Rights-Achievements--20171007-0013.html> announced 
that Cuba is sending Wednestay a "field hospital", with full staff and 
equipment, to Mozambique, which is a form of international cooperation 
whose purpose is to contribute to the management of public health 
conditions after the devastating impact caused by Cyclone Idai.

This new internationalist medical brigade will join 372 Cuban doctors 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Diaz-Canel-Defends-Cuban-Doctors-Work-in-Venezuela-After-NYT-Report-20190319-0019.html> 
who are already providing their services in the African country, 36 of 
whom arrived on March 14, when Idai made landfall for the first time, 
according to the Cuban News Agency (ACN).

In Mozambique the death toll rises to 447 and the directly affected 
population reaches 794,035 people, 128,941 of which are currently 
staying in 143 shelters provided by President Filipe 
Nyusi administration, according to the data updated until Monday by the 
National Institute of Catastrophe Management (INGC).

Cyclone Idai started as a tropical storm at Mozambique’s eastern coast 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Tropical-Cyclone-Isai-Threatens-Already-Flooded-Malawi-20190314-0004.html> 
on March 4. Days later, Idai made landfall and became one of the worst 
southern hemisphere tropical cyclones ever recorded as it reached four 
of five categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale, causeing multiple 
economic losses in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

/*“Our Cuban doctors, the Cuban Revolution’s most perfect work, always 
upholding our values, with their love of humanity, helping with a 
solidarity gesture to the Mozambican people. We are Cuba. We are 
Continuity. Let's go for more.”*/

Vice Minister Rodriguez Camejo also accompanied Tuesday Gladys Bejerano 
Portela, who is Cuba’s State Council vice president and Comptroller 
General, to the Mozambican embassy in Havana, where both officials 
signed a condolence book with the African republic.

"In the name of the Cuban state, government and people, we express our 
deepest condolences, sorrow and solidarity with the government and 
people of the sister Republic of Mozambique, in the face of the 
lamentable human and economic losses caused by Idai," Bejerano wrote.

In the center of Mozambique, the provinces of Manica and Sofala, where 
some 4.4 million people live, were the most affected by the cyclone.

In the capital Maputo, some 25 million people experienced the onslaught 
of Idai, whose consequences have been described by the United Nations as 
a “Level 3” humanitarian emergency, a category which only Syria and 
Yemen had achieved so far.

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