The Cuban medical brigade in Nepal already assisted about 2,000 patients in the zones harshly shaken by the April quake, in the districts of Katmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur, Granma newspaper stated today.
 
On April 25, Nepal was shaken with a devastated 7.9-degree seism on Richter's scale, which left over more than 8,600 victims.
 
On the evening of May 12, the same day that a second earthquake shook that nation, the number 41 brigade of the Henry Reeve International Medical Contingent against Disasters and Serious Epidemics, made up of 49 collaborators, 25 of them physicians from several specialties, arrived in Katmandu, capital of Nepal.
 
The day after touching Nepali soil, the Cuban health professionals traveled to the National Ayurdeva Research Center of Medicine, assigned by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization.
 
Days in Nepal are a process of mutual learning and fraternization, because the Cubans have the support of several physicians and para-physicians who work as interpreters and facilitators for their work, Doctor Luis Orlando Oliveros, chief of the Cuban medical brigade, told Granma newspaper.
 
The Cuban medical staff is living in tents in the back of the facility where they work, with all the required safety conditions.
 
With the patients consulted yesterday in Bhaktapur, the Cuban physicians exceeded around 2,000 Nepali citizens assisted since May 15.