MIAMI, United States. – The Legal Rescue Foundation (FRJ), of Cuban exiles in Miamiannounced that it has 5 million dollars in medical material to send to the Island, in order to alleviate the needs of the population, according to reported this Wednesday the news agency EFE.
According to Santiago Álvarez, president of FRJ, the aid is ready to be sent, although the conditions for the delivery of the material through diplomatic channels are still being worked out.
“The aid will be delivered to hospitals and the victims,” Álvarez told the Spanish news agency. He also clarified that, in no case will the aid go through the Cuban authorities.
“The containers with the material are ready for shipment, but the Government of Havana is not going to touch them,” he insisted.
According to Álvarez, the aid had been planned for a long time given the deterioration of the living conditions of the Cuban population, but the efforts to send it intensified after Hurricane Ian passed through the West of the Island.
The president of FRJ criticized that the authorities intend to “sell” the available aid and described the Cuban government’s response to the hurricane as “ineffective” and “negligent.”
For his part, Alexis Abril, from the Miami Medical Team Foundation, a group of medical professionals in South Florida that provides aid to countries suffering from catastrophes, told EFE that there were teams prepared to join the FRJ shipment and that They were awaiting the approval of the authorities.
So far, Cuba has received help from the governments of Mexico, Venezuela and Argentina, as well as international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO).
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