Cuba to send medical team to Turkiye to help those affected by earthquakes

A team of 32 Cuban medical workers will leave for Turkiye to help people affected by the earthquakes, Cuban Minister of Health Jose Angel Portal, said, Report informs via TASS.

“We have assembled a team of 32 Cuban medical workers, who will soon travel to Turkiye to support rescue efforts after the tragic events caused by the earthquakes last Monday. Our employees will be in Turkiye as long as its people need them,” the head of the department wrote.

Earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 occurred on February 6 with an interval of 9 hours in the province of Kahramanmaras in southeastern Turkiye. The tremors, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, were felt in 10 provinces of the country and neighboring states, of which Syria suffered the most. According to the latest data, the death toll in Turkiye has surpassed 20,000 people.