[NYTr] Nica: Cuban Docs Help Victims of Felix; Ortega in Diasaster Zones
 
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 13:26:29 -0500 (CDT)


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Nicaragua: Ortega in Hurricane Zones

Managua, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is on
an air-land tour of communities devastated by Hurricane Felix along the
banks of Coco river, bordering Honduras.

The president already visited Puerto Cabezas and other northeastern
zones, and today is going up into hard-access areas, many of them
isolated due to floods or threatened with possible landslides.

The chief of the Civil Defense, Colonel Mario Perez-Cassar, said in a
report yesterday that in the area of Waspam and other municipalities on
the riverside over 8,000 people were affected, and another 80 are
missing.

Over one thousand houses were partially or totally destroyed, while 13
communities of about 10,000 people are threatened by the river flooding.

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Cuban Doctors Assist Victims of Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua

Havana, September 7 (acn) A Cuban medical brigade is currently 
assisting victims of Hurricane Felix in the Caribbean coast of 
Nicaragua.

The island's medical brigade, made up of 57 doctors, arrived in the 
Autonomous Region of the North Atlantic of Nicaragua last August to 
attend residents of that remote area.

According to Carlos Vila, head of the brigade, told reporters that 
after the damage caused by Felix, they began to work full time in the 
affected areas. He added that 40 Cuban doctors are also working at the 
hospital of Waspan, in the border with Honduras.

He said that these doctors will be transferred to Puerto Cabezas, the 
capital of the North Caribbean of Nicaragua, where they will bring 
tents as the hospital of this port city was severely damaged by the 
hurricane.

Cuban doctors in Puerto Cabezas have already attended 171 patients 
while others are doing it in other localities of the so-called Mining 
Triangle that includes the municipalities of Siuna, Rosita and Bonanza.

The Cuban medical brigade also includes 28 Nicaraguan students from the 
Havana-based Latin American School of Medicine.

 
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