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Holguín Doctors in More than 50 Countries

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The Holguín medical collaboration extends to 51 countries with 2,500 health workers, including doctors, nurses and technicians from 80 medical specialties and 37 non-medical specialties.
 
Venezuela continues to be the country with the largest number of collaborators followed by Angola, Algeria, Ecuador, Bolivia, Haiti, South Africa, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, as part of the solidarity aid program with other sister nations and the export of services, an important source of income for the Cuban economy.

This northeastern province is one of the territories with greater commitment in this line of work of the Ministry of Public Health, as well as the foreign currency fundraising through assistance to foreigners in the network of hospitals and existing services, such as the International Medical Care (AMI) rooms of the pediatric hospital Octavio de la Concepción de la Pedraja, the V.I. Lenin hospital and the surgical hospital Lucía Íñiguez Landín.

The Holguín medical collaboration dates back to 1963, with the departure of the first Cuban Medical Brigade that provided assistance in the Republic of Algeria.

Among those integrating the brigade was the late Dr. José Cabrera Carballo (Cheo), who was part of the multidisciplinary team that successfully performed the surgery to separate the siamese twins from Las Tunas province in the hospital Lenin, in 1973, a important fact of Cuban Medicine.