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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2075 ... April 28, 2020
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Cuba's Unique Model of Medical 
Internationalism<https://socialistproject.ca/?p=2775>
In recent weeks, more than a dozen countries -- including two in Europe -- have 
requested and received Cuban doctors to cope with the Coronavirus pandemic.

John Kirk, a professor at the Latin America program of Dalhousie University in 
Nova Scotia, is author of Healthcare Without Borders and one of the foremost 
experts on Cuba’s medical internationalism. Ten years ago, he spent two months 
embedded with Cuba’s Henry Reeve medical emergency brigade in El Salvador after 
a hurricane, to observe them. In all he has interviewed 270 Cuban doctors and 
nurses during the course of his research. John Kirk was interviewed by Cuba 
Standard.
Cuba Standard (CS): What is the Henry Reeve Brigade?

John Kirk (JK): The Henry Reeve Brigade was formed in 2005. Responding to the 
massive problems in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Cuba offered 1,400 medical 
personnel and 32 tons of medicine to help in New Orleans, which was refused by 
the George W. Bush administration. Shortly afterwards, there was a major health 
problem in the Kashmir area of Pakistan after an earthquake. Cuba formed the 
brigade in response, and named it after an American who fought in the first war 
of independence, 1868-1878, against Spanish colonialism.

Since 2005, the Henry Reeve Brigade has been involved in all kinds of natural 
medical emergencies. This is a brigade of several thousand specially-trained 
doctors, nurses and technicians who go to natural emergencies, whether it be 
earthquakes, hurricanes or epidemics. They have been involved in emergencies in 
16 countries, and counting. As a result of the Coronavirus pandemic they have 
sent medical brigades to 16 countries. No. 15 was Trinidad and Tobago; the 
British Virgin Islands were the latest.
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