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Date: Friday, January 29, 2010 At 00:00 AM
Duration: 20 Days
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 Canadians for Cuba for Haiti fundraising campaign Letter from Canadian Network on Cuba www.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca Att: S. Skup, Secretary/Treasurer 56 Riverwood Terrace Bolton, ON L7E 1S4 January 18, 2010 Dear Friends, In response to the horrendous suffering of the Haitian people resulting from the earthquake and its many aftershocks, many Canadians have been wondering what is the most effective way to provide aid. The Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association of Toronto has proposed the Cuba for Haiti fundraising campaign which is also endorsed by the Canadian Network on Cuba as a national effort. Cuba has an unequalled record in helping people in crises such as the earthquake in Pakistan and natural disasters in many other countries. In fact it has set up a special emergency unit, the Henry Reeve Medical Brigade, to respond to such disasters. At the time of the earthquake in Haiti, 402 Cuban internationalists, 302 of them medical personnel, had already been helping Haitians. These together with many of the 500 Haitian doctors who had been trained in Cuba free of charge formed the essential early group of lifesavers, attending to 1,102 Haitian patients in the first 24 hours after the earthquake. They have continued their work, boosted by an additional medical brigade which arrived promptly from Cuba. We believe that this kind of unprecedented and invaluable help which Cuba has been giving Haiti for eleven years deserves to be supported as strongly as possible. The CNC urges you to support Cuba in this work by giving a donation payable to: “The Mackenzie-Papineau Memorial Fund,” and write on your cheque’s memo line “Cuba for Haiti”. Charitable receipts will be issued by the Mackenzie-Papineau Memorial Fund (Charitable Org - Revenue Canada Reg, #88876 9197RR0001). Your donation should be mailed to: The Mackenzie-Papineau Memorial Fund Att: S. Skup 56 Riverwood Terrace Bolton, ON L7E 1S4 The “Cuba for Haiti” contributions will go into a special account, ensuring that 100% of all donations are used for medical support and aid to Haiti. We are working directly with The Cuban Embassy in Ottawa and the Consulate General in Toronto. Sincerely, Isaac Saney, Co-chair and Tamara Hansen, Co-chair and Keith Ellis.CNC Co-ordinator & Spokesperson ? The Solidarity Assistance Offered by Cuba to Haiti• The solidarity of the Cuban people did not arrive at Haiti at the time of the earthquake. Our cooperation with that brotherly country has been offered for more than a decade now.• At the time the earthquake shook Haiti , around 400 Cuban cooperators were working in that brotherly country selflessly and free -of-charge. • Cuban doctors started to offer their services right after the earthquake took place. It has been the most important medical assistance received by the Haitian people in the first 72 hours and it is a very important source of medical assistance they are receiving now. And they do not stop at night time• On January 13th, more than 60 health cooperators reinforced the medical brigade in Port-au-Prince. Among them, there are specialists from the Henry Reeve Contingent for emergency situations with experience in similar disasters. • This medical brigade carried medicines, provisioning, food, serum and plasma bags with them. • Until Thursday, January 14, at 20:00 hrs, 1 987 patients had been treated and 111 surgical interventions had been performed at 5 assistance locations in Port-au-Prince .m The Cubans do not close down at night.• The Tent Hospital of the annexed, La Renaissence Hospital , the Ofatma Hospital, the Comprehensive Diagnosis Centers from Grand Goave and the Comprehensive Diagnosis Center of Mirebalais. These last two are located at the outskirts of the capital city. • Furthermore, Cuban cooperators at other Haitian departments started to work at the 6th location for medical attention, set up at Delmas 33 Hospital. • Around 400 Haitian youths, who were trained as doctors in Cuba, work today along side the Cuban reinforcements to save lives in this critical situation.• We can confirm the information that has been published already about Cuba’s immediate authorization, upon request, to use the Cuban air space in the Eastern territory of our country by US airplanes. • Cuba is willing to cooperate with all nations on the ground, including the United States, in order to assist the Haitian people and save lives, since Cuba has the personal and the necessary infrastructure in that country to do so. • Right now, Cuba is cooperating with Venezuela, Namibia and Norway to support the Haitian people.• We are also cooperating with China, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Russia.• We have addressed the PAHO requesting logistical support, expendable surgical material, hospital support and other necessary materials to guarrantee medical assistance in Haiti . • Since December 1998, Cuba offers medical cooperation to the people of Haiti , through the Health Comprehensive Program. • Up to date, 6 thousand and 94 cooperators have rendered their services to this sector in Haiti , who have performed more than 14 million medical consultations, more than 225 thousand surgeries, assisted in more than 100 thousand deliveries and saved more than 230 human lives. • In 2004, after the passing of Tropical Storm Jeanne through the city of Gonaives , Cuba offered its assistance through a brigade made up of 64 doctors and 12 tons of medicaments.• 5 Comprehensive Diagnosis Centers, built by Cuba and Venezuela , were offering their services before the time of the disaster. • As from 2004, Operation Miracle is being performed in Haiti . Until December 31, 2009, a total of 47 thousand 273 Haitians had been operated on.• There are 660 Haitian youths currently studying in Cuba , of which 541 are being trained to become doctors.• In Cuba , 917 professionals have been trained, of which 570 are doctors.• Cuba cooperates with Haiti in sectors such as: agriculture, energy, fisheries, communications, health and education.• As a result of Cuba’s cooperation in the field of education, 160 thousand 30 Haitians have learned how to read and write. ? |
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