Cuba highlight a world leader in healthcare daily British

Four months after the emergence of ebola, declared internationally as enhancer of the devastation in West Africa, Cuba is a world leader in direct medical assistance to combat the epidemic, said the British newspaper The Guardian.

United States and the United Kingdom sent thousands of troops and, together with other countries, announced increased support, but most of those promises have not yet materialized, The Guardian said in its online edition.

Therefore, the newspaper added, the World Health Organization declared reiteras occasions that the best support was sending health personnel, whereupon the Caribbean island responded almost immediately.

It was at the forefront in the battle against Ebola, sent the largest contingent of doctors and nurses, some 256, while authorities said they are already way over 200 volunteers, said The Guardian.

He added that in this way the Cuban government shames British and American politicians who were forced to offer congratulations on the success of operations.

According to the average quoted is not the first time that Cuba provides important medical care after a humanitarian disaster.

Four years ago, said the article under the title of Extraordinary overall clinical history of Cuba embarrassed the US blockade, following the devastating earthquake in impoverished Haiti, the Cuban government was concerned to ensure the attention of nearly 40 percent of total victims.

After the earthquake in Kashmir in 2005, he sent 2,400 workers to Pakistan, they set up 32 hospitals and medical scholarships donated thousand, continued the report.

He noted that emergency aid tradition dates back to the early years of the Cuban Revolution, as part of an extraordinary physician global internationalism.

Currently there are 50,000 doctors and nurses from Cuba in 60 developing countries, highlighted text, which in turn asserted that internationalism is part of the DNA of Cubans.

Seumas Milne, Guardian journalist and author of the article also reported that the island "is still suffocated by the embargo (blockade) US trade, as a kind of economic and political vice alive for over half a century".

If President Barack Obama wants to do something worthwhile in his last years at the helm of the United States could use Cuba's role in the crisis of Ebola as an opening to start an uprising of the blockade, Milne said.

Obama has executive power to loosen substantially and restore diplomatic relations, despite the embargo can only be entirely rejected by Congress, he added.

Could begin urged Milnes, "by releasing the three Cubans still imprisoned in US jails for spying on activist groups against Cuba, related to terrorism".