CARDENAS, Matanzas, Aug 2 (ACN) We are doing this work to put an end to the pandemic, the faster it happens the sooner we will get ahead, said José Antonio Huerta González, one of the private sector drivers who voluntarily participates along with health personnel in the fight against COVID-19.
At the wheel of his old car, a classic Chevrolet, the resident of this Cuban city helps the team at a clinic located in the Brisas del Mar neighborhood, near the Julio Aristegui Villamil territorial hospital, in the midst of the worst outbreak of the epidemic.
My mission is to always be available in case there is a case, to take it to the polyclinic, to the hospital, wherever it corresponds; I am 56 years old and I am hypertensive, but what are we going to do, we have to support this task," Huerta González told the Cuban News Agency.
My family is always worried, they ask me to take care of myself and take all precautions because you have the risk of getting sick, but here we are, I tell other drivers to join in as well, this is for the good of all, he said.
Several private cars make it possible to transport patients, doctors, medicines and different resources to face the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in this city, which also benefited from other signs of solidarity such as donations and the arrival of reinforcement medical personnel.
Sergio Carpio Caraballo, another driver turned volunteer, has among his missions to transport the bulbs of the Cuban anti-COVID-19 Abdala vaccine (92.28 percent efficacy with the three doses), which recently began to be applied to pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers.
Here we help in everything, since we have a transport to move anything and nothing gets stuck, commented to the press the Cardenas native, who is at the disposal of the office number nine of the Héroes del Moncada polyclinic, belonging to one of the five health areas in this municipality in the province of Matanzas.
I worked as a volunteer in the previous stage of vaccination and then they called me for this, we move the vaccines, the patients with COVID-19 or with other diseases with different resources; although I have a contract for six months we will be here as long as it is needed, Carpio Caraballo assured.
More than a hundred private vehicles in Matanzas are used as ambulances or support cars for polyclinics and hospitals, based on agreements with the Public Health sector, according to data provided by Roberto Bernal Villena, provincial director of Transportation.
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