Farmers donate products to children’s hospital in Cuba

Farmers from the Cuban province of Villa Clara donated agricultural products to the local Children´s Hospital in tribute to the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro on his 97th birth anniversary.

On Friday, farmers of different productive forms of the central territory delivered viands, veggies and meat products to the children hospitalized at the José Luis Miranda Children´s Hospital, several of them treated at the Oncology Ward.

Julio Rodríguez, president of the Miguel Ángel Acevedo Cooperativa de Créditos y Servicios, told the press that among products donated were cheeses, guava bars, cookies and fruits such as pineapple, mamey sapote and papaya.

Rodríguez said they also delivered othe foods such as pumpkin and avocados for the consumption of patients and hospital workers.

“There will be also a donation of jams, toys and sheep meat to the children of the Onco-hematology ward”, said Sonia Sosa, a member of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) in Villa Clara.