Cuban doctor returns home well and Ebola free

By Caribbean Medical News Staff
Ebola has been ravaging West Africa and many health workers were among those to die but today Dr Felix Baez, a member of Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade is a happy man.

He contracted Ebola fever virus during his mission in Sierra Leone, West Africa while working alongside 145 comrades from his Country which included experts in all areas of medicine. He has made a full recovery according to reports. The World Health Organization had said that “Cuba was punching above its weight” and was one of the more formidable international health care teams to assist in the fight against Ebola, sentiments echoed by US secretary of State, John Kerry.

Upon his infection, he was flown to Geneva University Hospital where his condition improved significantly. Upon the good news of his Ebola free status, he arrived in his homeland to his grateful countrymen and women and was met by the island’s health minister, Roberto Morales.

While in Geneva he received specialized care and was released upon the results of the virus not being in his bodily fluids.

Meanwhile Dr. Martin Salia, a Sierra Leone native and surgeon was flown to the US and is the latest known doctor to have died of the Ebola Virus.

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