Cuban Nurses in Barbados Saluted

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Cuban team in Barbados saluted

GROUP CELEBRATED DURING LATIN AMERICAN DAY OF MEDICINE
On the occasion of Latin American Medicine Day, the institutions of the Cuban Solidarity Movement in Barbados convened an event at the Clement Payne Cultural Centre, St Michael to honour the representatives of the Henry Reeve Medical Contingent who currently provide services in Barbados in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the event, the Member of Parliament and Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of Barbados for reparations for slavery, the Honorable Trevor Prescod, a prominent Barbadian pan- Africanist, the Ambassador of Barbados to CARICOM David Comissiong, the Charge d´Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Ambassador Álvaro Sánchez Cordero, the Ambassador of Cuba Sergio Jorge Pastrana and the Head of the Mission of the Henry Reeve Medical Brigade in Barbados Dr Daymarelis Ortega, addressed the participants.
The attendees were also entertained by a group of young talents who won the Richard Stoute national competition in Barbados, an event that has been held continuously since 1976.
During the celebration, Ambassador Comissiong revealed he had submitted a nomination to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for Cuba’s Henry Reeve Medical Brigade to be awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for its outstanding work this year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Medical teams have gone to 38 countries including 12 CARICOM countries- Jamaica, Belize, Haiti, St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St Lucia, Grenada, Guyana, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Barbados.
SOURCE - http://misiones.minrex.gob.cu/en/articulo/ celebrated-latin-american-day-medicine-clement-paynecultural-center-barbados (12/4/2020)


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