Positive Results of Cuban Medical Brigade in Guatemala http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2011/july/05/centralamerica11070502.htm

The Cuban Medical Brigade (BMC) in Guatemala closed the first semester of 2011 with the satisfactory fulfillment of principles of solidarity and brotherhood between both peoples, national coordinator Reinaldo Pons stated.Some 332 Cuban collaborators are still working in this country with a preventive-curative or clinical-epidemiological focus, which characterizes our training and the objectives of our work, Pons told Prensa Latina.

Retelling the first six months of 2011, the top leader of the island´s cooperation in this sphere said the contingent is comprised of 57 in Operation Miracle free eye surgery program, and 275 in the integral health plan.Of them, 238 are physicians in different specialties, 81 in hospitals, 152 work in different primary care levels, and five in the ministry of the branch and the BMC central leadership.So far, the collaboration covers 13.1 percent of the Guatemalan population, more than 1,939, 000 people, distributed in 29 brigades in departments and municipalities, Pons noted.