MÉRIDA, Mexico – The Green Cross and Solidarity without Borders (SSF) organizations announced in Miami a new program that seeks to provide support with medicines to patients in serious condition in Cuba.
Taimy Venero, representative of the organization, He told Telemundo 51 which is about helping patients with extreme difficulties in accessing vital medical treatments, which can put their lives at risk.
People interested in receiving help can contact the organization via email [email protected]
Family members or close friends of the patient can send their medical history and specific details about their medical situation through this email address, Venero explained.
In this way, The Green Cross seeks to open direct communication between the medical team caring for the patient and its own professionals to ensure that needs are fully understood and the necessary medications can be provided.
At the end of the process, the organization will send the medicines directly from person to person, avoiding any government intervention.
Julio Alfonso, representative of Solidarity Without Borders, stressed the importance of this collaboration and the urgent need to support seriously ill patients in Cuba.
The Green Cross and Solidarity without Borders in Cuba
This is not the first time that two organizations have presented projects related to Cuba.
In March, they launched a program to to reintegrate Cuban doctors living in the United States into the workforce.
The project is intended to be a hard blow to the Cuban regime’s business, which has been exporting health professionals for decades in risky and unfavorable conditions.
Julio César Alfonso, founder and director of SSF, said in a press conference that the initiative could benefit more than 33,000 Cuban doctors in the U.S. along with many others of different nationalities “who will not go to work as slaves.”
Before the end of the year, Alfonso said, “direct contacts” are being established with governments of Latin American countries, including Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Argentina and Peru, among others.
“This is a real and tangible alternative to a medical mission, not what Cuba has done with missions that only serve the interests of the government (…) That is human trade,” said Alexei Lopez, from the Green Cross Team organization.
The SSF and Green Cross Team brigades, which are supported by other organizations such as Prisoners Defenders and Florida political leaders, could last between seven months and two years.
