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AT the start of the corona crisis, Italy was overwhelmed by the virus. Everyone remembers the terrible images of overcrowded hospitals with dying patients. Cuba sent a medical brigade to help deal with the worst of the suffering. Once the pandemic was under control, Cuban doctors and nurses returned home.
About two years later, a brigade of medical personnel from Cuba went to Italy again, more specifically to Calabria, the southernmost part of Italy. The brigade is still active. This time there is no urgent emergency, but the problem is one of a serious and chronic shortage of Italian doctors in the region.
One example: almost half of all vacancies for emergency physicians went unfilled in Italy in 2020.
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