• Submitted by: manso
• Health and Medicine
• 08 / 06 / 2010

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HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 6 (acn) Esteban Lazo, Vice-president of the Cuban Council of State, ratified the island’s commitment to help Haiti in the recovery of its health system, as part of a program of the governments of the two countries and that of Brazil.

While closing in this capital the 4th Tripartite Meeting, Lazo told delegates that this is an issue that has the permanent attention of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, in keeping with the critical situation of the health sector in Haiti, devastated by an earthquake in January.

Lazo explained the need for the cooperation accord signed by the three governments to have a work schedule, which makes it possible to verify as soon as possible the advances made in this effort to help the vulnerable and needy population of the neighboring country.

Likewise, he recalled the historic debt of Latin America and the Caribbean with the first nation in the continent to achieve its independence, hence the donation of 33 million dollars made by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to rebuild the airport of Cape Haitian.

Jaques Hugues Henry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Port-au-Prince and head of the Haitian delegation, described the
joint work of the three countries as a model of cooperation, since it places human beings at the center of concerns and it’s not based on money.

He also referred to the four hospitals that will be soon built in Haiti with the help of Brazil, to which Cuba will contribute human resources.

The Haitian authorities have requested consultancy to create a National Ambulance System, as one of its immediate objectives.

Besides providing medical treatment, the Cuban professionals are currently working in Haiti in the training of health leaders and empirical staff, as well as in the epidemiological control, which, in Hughes' words, are the eyes Haiti doesn’t have at the moment.

The tripartite meeting was a source of exchanges to cooperate with a new program in the specialties of hygiene and epidemiology, and incorporate health laboratories, activists to control hygiene and vectors, and educational actions in Haitian communities.

Fernando Assoni, head of the Brazilian delegation, highlighted the atmosphere of solidarity in which the three days of the 4th Tripartite Meeting took place, and expressed the three nations’ determination to work until materializing the objectives of their respective governments.

Source. ACN