Argentina to send humanitarian aid to Cuba over oil tank fires

Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero announced that Argentina will send humanitarian aid to Cuba to help mitigate the consequences of the fires unleashed in oil tanks. The fire, which had started on August 5 at a fuel storage base in Matanzas, in western Cuba, was “controlled” last Wednesday by the island’s Fire Department. Tomorrow morning, at approximately 2 am, “the first load of Argentine donations for the brother Caribbean country, composed of more than 2.7 tons of sanitary supplies, will be transferred from the Ezeiza International Airport, and later two other remaining shipments will be made on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 of this month,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. On Monday, through The White Helmets, we will send a load of donations with more than 2.7 tons of sanitary supplies, and Thursday and Friday there will be other shipments,” Cafiero wrote via Twitter. 

FIRE IN CUBA: ARGENTINA SENDS HUMANITARIAN AIDOn Monday through @cascosblancos we will send a load of donations with more than 2.7 tons of sanitary supplies. Thursday and Friday there will be other shipments. Solidarity and cooperation guide our foreign policy. pic.twitter.com/wDsiJqCreR — Santiago Cafiero (@SantiagoCafiero)
August 14, 2022

The Ministry of Health of the Nation, from its Directorate of International Relations, confirmed the availability and shipment of “10 thousand gloves; 500 hooded mamluks; 2400 kits of camisolines, caps and boots; 3 thousand camisolines with a fist; 20 thousand three-layer masks; 10 thousand KN95 masks; 50 infrared thermometers; a thousand disposable plastic aprons and 200 protective face masks; that make up more than 800 kilos of merchandise in 155 packages”. In addition, the Ministry of Health of the province of Buenos Aires provided a list with the following inputs: “1,150,000 latex gloves; 30 packets of cotton; 50 units of non-sterile bandages; 50 units of sterile bandages; 35 units of sterile gauze; 300 catheter units; 200 units of cannulas; 95 central venous catheter kits; six units of sulfadiazine (cream) and 25000 cotton gauze dressings.” The approximate value of both charges ranges from USD 55 thousand.

Original source in Spanish