Global Collaboration in Times of COVID-19: Cuba's Emergency Medical Contingent.
MEDICC Rev
; 22(2): 64-66, 2020 04.
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en Inglés
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-459830
ABSTRACT
The days are long and arduous, with end-less patients to attend, often in a foreign language, always on foreign shores. Far from family and the familiar. Sleep is fi tful at best for health profession-als serving in emergency situations-when sickness obeys no clock and patients' pain haunts even the quiet moments. The crisis scenario varies post-earthquake, hurricane or tsunami; amid a cholera or Ebola epidemic. The countries vary Haiti, Pakistan, Guatemala, Mozambique, Sierra Leone. What does not vary is the answer to the calls for help and Cuban professionals' commitment to care for the most vulner-able. These aren't armchair musings or a political pat on the back they are my own conclusions after living for weeks in close-quarter tents with Cuban doctors, nurses and biomedical engineers in post-earth-quake Pakistan and Haiti, and witnessing their work.
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Asunto principal:
Neumonía Viral
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Infecciones por Coronavirus
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Medicina de Emergencia
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Pandemias
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Betacoronavirus
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Cooperación Internacional
Límite:
Humanos
País/Región como asunto:
Caribe
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Cuba
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
MEDICC Rev
Asunto de la revista:
Salud Pública
Año:
2020
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Artículo
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