In an interview with the weekly El Popular, the diplomat denied the campaign that Washington promotes in various scenarios, particularly social networks, to present the Cuban government as failed and try to hide the consequences of its encirclement policy.
While blocked, we have done many things internally and for the benefit of others, we have a health system recognized worldwide, Popa said.
He said that since 1961 Havana has sent numerous medical brigades to help other towns.
Part of this principled policy is Operation Miracle, through which many recovered their vision in other latitudes.
In this regard, he mentioned the presence for almost 17 years of a contingent of specialists from his land who provide services in Uruguay at the José Martí Eye Hospital, with thousands of ophthalmological operations to their credit.
If we are a failed state, how could we help other countries in battles like Ebola or Covid-19, he asked.
He added that the same occurs with the vaccines that Cuban experts developed against the coronavirus, and a medicine to prevent diabetic foot amputation, among other scientific advances for the benefit of health internationally.
Zulan Popa highlighted that the island surrounded by the greatest planetary power was the first country to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child. It is knowledge that Cuba shares, she stressed.
There is cruelty against the Cuban people. During the pandemic, the United States prohibited Cuba from purchasing lung ventilators and acquiring oxygen to treat its patients, he added.
That is an act of war and genocide against the Cuban people, he stated.
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