Duration - 1:51 [a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Cuban medical workers have served on international cooperation missions in more than 150 countries since the 1960s.

During Covid, a Cuban medical brigade helped Italians in Lombardy, which triggered Calabria’s president Roberto Occhiuto to reach out to Cuba in 2022 to invite hundreds of doctors to his region. Calabria is one of the poorest regions in Italy and its healthcare has suffered greatly from staffing and other issues.

Listen to the Italian people explain what Cuba’s health internationalism means to them.

“Cuba will always be in my heart,” says an elderly Italian man whose life was saved by a Cuban doctor.

Watch our documentary film “From Cuba to Calabria: Medical Missions in Times of Crisis.”