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The Humanitarian Project Cuba Soberana, based in Belgium, announced the upcoming departure of its fifth container of medical supplies to Cuba, in the year that the organization celebrates its five-year anniversary.
According to the official agency Prensa Latina, the filling of the container began on Friday on the outskirts of the city of Gante, with the participation of members of the project led by the Cuban Reinaldo Romero and representatives of associations of Cubans sympathetic to the regime residing in France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.
The shipment includes oxygen masks, surgical materials, medications, hospital furniture, wheelchairs, and bicycles, destined for the province of Santiago de Cuba and the municipality of Jiguaní in Granma province, both in the eastern part of the country and among the areas most affected by Hurricane Melissa, which struck that region in October 2025.
In the filling of the container, the Belgian association Los Amigos de Cuba also participated, one of the entities supporting the project. For this organization, founded in the early 1970s, this was its 60th shipment to the island.
Cuba is going through a severe humanitarian crisis that has prompted multiple international initiatives, such as the delivery of 1,000 food and hygiene kits in Santiago de Cuba by Spain, and the $94.1 million emergency plan for the island spearheaded by the UN.
The Cuban economy fell by 5% in 2025, and an additional contraction is projected for this year, amid a context of widespread discontent and pressures from the Trump Administration on the regime.
These initiatives are supplemented by the commitment from Mexico of nearly 35 million dollars and the Russian donation of medical equipment for Santiago de Cuba and Matanzas, in a context where the deterioration of the Cuban healthcare system will not be resolved in the short term.
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