UN Chief in Haiti Extols Cuban Docs 

Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Guatemalan Edmond Mulet, describe on Tuesday as extraordinary the work of Cuban doctors in the quake-hit Caribbean country.

These professionals work extraordinarily in every Haitian corner, with great devotion and love and often under difficult, really terrible conditions, Mulet told Prensa Latina at the UN headquarters.

Despite this situation, they are there, committed, doing their best in a really impressive way, he added.

"I take my hat off to the work carried out by Cuban doctors in Haiti, not only after the quake of January 12, but since long before," he said.

Mulet explained that the MINUSTAH mandate does not involve the medical issue, but his mission maintains cordial relations with Cuban doctors.

At the moment of the quake, nearly 400 Cubans were already working in the health sector in Haiti. Now the figure has reached 1,500, in a contingent including Haitians who were doing medical studies in Cuba.

Professionals from 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries and another seven from the United States, graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba also make up that team.

PL Translation Staff