In moments when Cuba and the rest of the world fight a pandemic, nurses of the largest of the Antilles constitute a great army of white coats that bravely face the risk for their lives in the relentless fight against the new coronavirus.
Today Cuba celebrates Cuban Nurses Day with a total of more than 85 thousand, of which a considerable number are providing services in more than twenty countries, most of them in the care of patients infected by the COVID-19.
June 3 was chosen as Cuban Nursing Day in honor of the birth of Victoria Brú, a Cuban nurse, the first martyr in her specialty, who died at the age of 42 on December 7, 1918, due to an epidemic. of influenza that hit the city of Cienfuegos, where she worked then.
Congratulations to all the Cuban nursing staff from the people of the Island, as well as from the Cubaplus and Cubaplus Latin magazines.
CubaPLUS Latinos
CubaPLUS Guyana
CubaPLUS Travel