The Cuban Medical Brigade was received at the Malpensa airport with long applause. Everyone heard and saw them on the networks after their landing this Sunday. Two hours later, the group, made up of 37 specialists and 15 members of the nursing staff, had arrived at Crema where they would soon have to face what will be an unusual and distressing daily life.<\/p>\n
For the intensive care doctor Leonardo Fern\u00e1ndez, one of the first problems, before facing even the disease itself, has been the cold. He jokingly says it for the Ansa<\/a><\/em> news agency that interviewed him by phone. Fern\u00e1ndez is of the opinion that only Ebola has been more severe than the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n He is 68 years old and his experience includes international emergencies due to earthquakes, tsunamis or epidemics such as hemorrhagic fever in Liberia. His only slogan seems to be one: \u201cTo aid, aid and aid.\u201d<\/p>\n Like his companions, this man, a native of Guant\u00e1namo, is stationed in Crema, the municipality of the Cremona province located east of Milan. The region belongs to Lombardy, the area most affected by the pandemic.<\/p>\n The Cuban brigade occupies two locations there: a diocese and a hotel. In front of the field hospital, put up in the parking lot at the entrance to the emergency room of the Maggiore Hospital, a processing center was set up to guarantee food for the Cubans.<\/p>\n The field hospital has about 30 spaces, some of which will be dedicated to intensive care.<\/p>\n Cuban doctors arrive in Italy to combat coronavirus pandemic<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n