The Chinese corporation Hainergy New Energy, belonging to the Haier group, delivered this Wednesday a donation of 10 pulmonary ventilators to the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, a shipment that the authorities have disseminated and disclosed, as on previous occasions, while there is still no record of the Mexican fans allegedly sent to the Island.
Last January, the information was disclosed that 200 of the controversial Mexican ventilators with a national bill, which incurred multiple delays and cost overruns, arrived in Cuba as a donation according to the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt). However, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said it was unaware of such a thing and Havana, an expert in publicizing all receipts of medical or food supplies, never mentioned them.
Last January, the information was disclosed that 200 of the controversial Mexican ventilators with a national bill, which incurred multiple delays and cost overruns, arrived in Cuba as a donation.
Last March, Emeequisthe publication that revealed the matter, received a response from the Mexican Presidency to the same question posed to the Foreign Ministry and the Secretary of the Navy about the shipment to Cuba. They also said they did not know.
The Chinese equipment will be destined for four health institutions in Havana for the treatment of patients with respiratory failure in the early stages, both pre- and post-ventilation, according to the director of the Calixto García University Hospital, Miguel García.
This is Hainergy’s third donation to the Cuban health system since the beginning of 2020, when it delivered medical items to the island’s embassy in China, and then in May of the same year it donated 100,000 sanitary masks. Last year, the Asian entity also supported Cuban companies in the supply of oxygen concentrators.
The general manager of the corporation, Sun Yongie, expressed that his company wants to help the Cuban people in the fight against the pandemic. “These efforts demonstrate the collaboration and friendship between the two countries,” he noted.
For her part, the Cuban deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Deborah Rivas, pointed out at the award ceremony that the Asian company is considered a “strategic partner” for various sectors of the island’s economy.
Nor did he miss the opportunity to point out that the “solidarity gesture” takes place in the midst of the “complex economic context” aggravated by the tightening of the embargo.
The activists, according to the official press, have collected powdered milk, canned food and feminine hygiene items through a solidarity project called El Pan
It is the same argument with which the sending of another donation was highlighted, this time from “friends of the Island in the US” who are preparing a shipment with 3,400 kilos of food and hygiene products that should arrive in Havana on the 11th. .
The activists, according to the official press, have collected powdered milk, canned food and feminine hygiene items through a solidarity project called El Pan and the Council of Churches of Cuba will be the one to receive it.
The CubanaKoa Foundation, the Campaign Saving Lives, and the foundation of the Cuban pianist Nachito and his wife Aurora Herrera, together with Matter, “a non-profit medical group” based in Minnesota, are the organizations that have been part of the collection.
The coordinator of the project is Félix Sharpe, a Cuban emigrant to the United States more than half a century ago who defends the policies of rapprochement between the two countries and who told the official press that he felt “proud that so many people in the United States unite around a such a human purpose as helping Cuba”.
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