Cuba has just received 300 tons of "vital resources" from Venezuela, intended for the recovery of the damages caused by hurricanes Oscar and Rafael in the provinces of the eastern and western regions, respectively.
The ship carrying construction materials and supplies for primary healthcare has arrived at the container terminal of the Guillermón Moncada port in Santiago de Cuba.
According to the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, the action follows an instruction from President Nicolás Maduro, and the supplies were gathered by the Venezuelan people as a "message of solidarity" towards Cuba.
Beatriz Johnson Urrutia, the chief secretary of the province, and Orlando Maneiro Gaspar, the ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on the Island, were present to receive the cargo.
On the other hand, the Antonio Maceo Grajales International Airport, also in Santiago de Cuba, welcomed on Sunday the first of four planes carrying a donation valued at a total of 600,000 dollars.
This is a supply of essential goods sent by the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) for the victims of Hurricane Oscar in Guantánamo.
The Santiago de Cuba airport is set to receive more than 94 tons of supplies between November 10 and 13 as part of the United Nations System's Action Plan in response to Hurricane Oscar, aimed at assisting nearly half a million people in the most affected areas of Guantánamo.
"These critical supplies will support national efforts to improve living conditions, health, water, sanitation, and hygiene through medications, medical supplies, water storage tanks, hygiene kits, chlorine tablets, tarps, mosquito nets, solar lamps, tool kits, among others," stated a communiqué from the UN system in Cuba.
The donation is in response to an agreement made by five UN agencies (the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)) and the European Union.
The flights were funded by the EU, with logistical support from the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot Network (UNHRD) managed by the World Food Programme.
Beatriz Johnson Urrutia, alongside the governor of the province Manuel Falcón Hernández and Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, the European Union ambassador in Cuba, presided over the ceremony for receiving the donation.
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