HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 11 (acn) More than one hundred medical professionals from 18 Latin American and Caribbean nations are attending the first International Workshop for the prevention and fight against Ebola, underway till November 14 at Havana´s Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute.
Deputy Health minister Marieta Cutiño said that the workshop aims at training health professionals who will join actions to prevent the appearance of the Ebola virus in our region or control it in case it appears.
Particpants also include representatives from AFrica and a Caribbean Public health agency, from Cuban medical brigades in Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Haiti, Trinidad-Tobago and Mozambique, as well as other Cuban health professionals with the central unit for medical cooperation, the Civil Defense Research Center and the Interior Ministry.
A group of 13 highly experienced professors at at the Tropical Medicine Institute and from the University of Medical Sciences and the Health Ministry are in charge of the course.
Doctor Cutiño stressed the significance of the constant training to prevent and fight the disease, and keep on with epidemiological surveillance, bio-security and international sanitary control to preserve the health of the people of our nations.
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