This Monday morning, President Michel Martelly accompanied by his wife Sophia Martelly, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and Minister of Health, Dr. Florence D. Guillaume, left the country to Cuba to attend in Havana at the Special Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) on Ebola.

Senior representatives and Heads of Government of Member States of the Alliance [Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Ecuador, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and St. Lucia, and as invited observers : Haiti, St. Kitts and Nevis and Grenada] as well as organizations of the United Nations will meet in the context of the call made by the Secretary-General of the UN Ban Ki-moom to join international forces to face the Ebola virus, which affects West Africa and Central.

This meeting aims at the adoption of emergency measures to fight against the Ebola outbreak and prevent the spread of the disease in Latin America and the Caribbean and to define the contribution of Member States and observers.

President Martelly will take advantage of this Summit to share with its counterparts and other heads of government present the Plan of Response to Ebola, prepared by the Ministry of Health.

Recall that Cuba is the largest contributor and an example to the world in the fight against Ebola epidemic in Africa, with 165 health professionals [doctor and nurses] already on the ground in Sierra Leone since early October and another contingent of 296 Cuban health professionals is expected soon in Liberia and Guinea.

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