After the 2005 Kashmir earthquake , Cuba sent over 2,400 physicians and paramedical staff and established 32 field hospitals and two relief camps in the North-West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir . A total of 36 transport flights were made . In addition to nurses , paramedics and doctors the initial two flights were only of military trained physicians . Tons of medical equipment and medicines were sent by the government of Cuba . Approximately 30 amputee patients were flown to Cuba for treatments . Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf expressed his contentment at the efforts of Fidel Castro and appreciated the services of the Cuban medical teams . Dr. Juan Carlos Martín , Director of the Cuban field hospital in Muzaffarabad , said " We knew this had to be a closed-loop relief effort . Not only did we have to bring the medicines and the doctors , we had to provide everything – the hospital , the electricity , the plumbing , the beds – to run that hospital " . From October , 2005 to January 24 , 2006 , Cuban medical teams performed 601,369 consultations , 5,925 surgeries including 2,819 major surgeries and served at 44 different locations in the quake-affected region
2005 Kashmir earthquake
2005 Kashmir earthquake
Cuba–Pakistan relations