Five years ago, the visit of a president of the United States for the first time in more than eight decades seemed to indicate that the two countries were finally finding a way to coexistence.
On March 19, 1998, Prensa Latina reported an unusual event from Geneva: Cuba, the country that the United States had been describing since 1982 as a sponsor of terrorism, was acknowledged as a victim of this type of actions.
The 18 of this marks a year the confirmation of the first positive for COVID-19 in the province, when a 57-year-old Canadian citizen was diagnosed with the disease, a few hours after his arrival at a hotel in the tourist destination of Holguín.
Those who did everything possible to discredit and prevent Cuban medical cooperation during Donald Trump's administration must have been surprised to hear the information provided by Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, Director of Cuba's Central Unit for Medical Cooperation, when he said that 25 brigades with some 2,500 Cuban collaborators are still fighting COVID-19 around the world. Dr. Jorge said that in the last six decades, and in spite of the U.S. blockade, Cuban health professionals have treated nearly one third of the global population.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Rare Diseases (RD) as those that affect less than five patients per 10,000 inhabitants, of which there are more than seven thousand described.