Raul dismissed the Medical Brigade who traveled to Sierra Leone to face the Ebola

The President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, Raul Castro Ruz sent the 165 health professionals who traveled to Sierra Leone to join the global fight against Ebola virus that has killed thousands of people in West Africa.

Report daily Granma, which right on the steps of the plane, on Wednesday night Army General gave a handshake to each of the Cuban collaborators, who with obvious enthusiasm they started to fulfill the sacred duty of saving lives .

The group is made up of 63 doctors and 102 nurses from across the country, with over fifteen years of experience. About 80 percent have completed internationalist mission earlier, many of them precisely on the African continent.

This time he also traveled the direction of the medical brigades of Liberia and Guinea, ranging as advanced with the aim of creating the conditions for the arrival of Cuban collaborators both countries.

 A farewell at the Jose Marti International Airport also attended José Ramón Machado Ventura, Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers; and Roberto Morales Ojeda, Minister of Public Health