Cuban Strategy and Medical Cooperation to Combat Ebola, 2014-2016.

This article presents Cuba's strategy of medical aid and organization of the three medical teams formed; refers to the teams' contribution to epidemic control in treatment centers where they worked alongside other personnel; and describes measures taken in Cuba to prevent the virus from entering the country through returning volunteers or other means. In the centers where Cuban medical teams worked with other health professionals in West Africa, case fatality decreased from 80%-90% to 24%, contributing to control of the epidemic; no Ebola outbreaks occurred in Cuba. During the epidemic, two Cuban health professionals died of malaria and one physician fell ill with Ebola. This paper includes an overview of the treatment and evolution of the latter case, a doctor who contracted the disease in Sierra Leone and was treated in Geneva and Havana. KEYWORDS Ebola virus, treatment, strategy, followup, medical collaboration, Republic of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cuba. PMID: 32335570 [PubMed - in process]
Source: MEDICC Review - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: MEDICC Rev Source Type: research