Havana, Jan 4 (RHC) Francesco Cannizzaro, a deputy from Calabria, Italy, thanked Cuba on Wednesday for sending 50 doctors to assist the health system in that southern region.

In a meeting with the Cuban ambassador in Italy, Mirta Granda Averhoff, the official expressed his support for this decision, taken in light of the emergency in Calabria, due to a lack of health personnel.

The head of the Cuban Mission also reported on Twitter that the Italian press covered the arrival of the group of professionals from the Antillean nation, who will start working in hospitals after completing a course at the University of the region.

Recently, the president of that territory in the south of the Italian Peninsula, Roberto Occhiuto, highlighted on his Facebook profile the arrival of Cuban doctors in his country and indicated that they will help keep Calabrian wards and hospitals open.

He pointed out that Calabria seeks to guarantee all the tools at its disposal for the attention of citizens, in the face of the health emergency. (Source: ACN)