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Published: Tuesday, 26 March 2019 08:16

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Photo: Cubadebate.Havana, Mar 26.- A campaign hospital with all its personnel and essential equipment travels tomorrow to Mozambique to help counteract the impact of the devastating cyclone Idai, Cuban Vice Chancellor Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo announced Monday.

The new medical brigade will join the 372 collaborators of the island that serve in the African country, of which 36 cooperate from the first moment in which the hydrometeorological phenomenon made landfall on March 14, said the vice-minister of the Ministry of Foreign Relations. Foreign (MINREX).

He added that his presence responds to the historic Cuban-African solidarity ties and in particular to the catastrophic damage caused by the hurricane, with nearly 500 deaths, according to statistics from the National Emergency Management Institute of the government of that Republic.

Several regions of Mozambique were hit by the cyclone Idai, which with winds of 170 kilometers per hour also left 110 thousand people homeless, and significant material damage.
The vice minister of the MINREX accompanied Gladys Bejerano Portela, vice president of the State Council and Comptroller General of the Republic, to the signing of the book of condolences opened at the Mozambican embassy in Havana.

On behalf of the Cuban State, Government and people, we express our deepest condolences, sorrow and solidarity with the government and people of the sister Republic of Mozambique in the face of the lamentable human and economic losses caused by Idai, wrote Bejerano Portela.

With the memory of our leaders and the history that unites us, he said, Cuba will always be on the side of Mozambique.

Maputo is the capital of that African nation, with almost 25 million inhabitants and an area of 799 thousand 380 square kilometers, which was the most damaged by Idai, which reached category four, out of a maximum of five on the Saffir-Simpson scale. (Cubadebate)

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