The code of honor was signed by the renewed leadership of the medical brigade that bears more than 11 years working in Guatemala.

  A new stage of work, with grater vigor and conviction, starts for this group, the cadres of which are different in the 60 percent of the cases, according to coordinator Henry Carreño.

Carreño confirmed to Prensa Latina the presence of 360 health workers in 18 of the 22 Guatemalan departments, 38 of them signatories to the code during an ethics-reaffirmation ceremony in Guatemala City.

Representatives of the Cuban Embassy and the rest of official Cuban missions in Guatemala witnessed the commitment assumed by those who already lead the work of the Island's medical collaboration.

These collaborators follow the path taken in late 1998, when the first professionals, technicals and other aid workers came to heal the wounds left in Guatemala by the devastating Hurricane Mitch.

They are joined by others who have come recently to the medical brigado to work in Operation Miracle, with important results in ophthalmological care in a short time.