Cuba Shares Ebola Containment Experience with Democratic Republic of the Congo

During the meeting, Cuban Minister of Public Health Dr. José Angel Portal Miranda highlighted Cuba's expertise gained during the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, where 256 Cuban healthcare professionals from the Henry Reeve Contingent served in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. DRC Health Minister Dr. Samuel Roger Kamba expressed gratitude for Cuba's solidarity, noting that over three months, the affected health zones in the DRC expanded from four to 60 across six provinces with a fatality rate exceeding 40 percent. The Congolese government requested support in strengthening medical care, aiding field teams, enhancing epidemiological monitoring, and evaluating risk assessments, while navigating challenges such as the absence of a specific vaccine for the current variant.