Following the 2004 Asian tsunami , Cuba sent medical assistance to Banda Aceh and Sri Lanka . In response to Hurricane Katrina , Cuba prepared to send 1500 doctors to the New Orleans ; the offer was refused . Several months later the mission was dispatched to Pakistan following the 2005 Kashmir earthquake there . Ultimately Cuba sent " more than 2,500 disaster response experts , surgeons , family doctors , and other health personnel " , who stayed through the winter for more than 6 months . Cuba is helping with the medical crisis in Haiti due to the 2010 Haiti earthquake . All 152 Cuban medical and educational personnel in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince at the time of the earthquake were reported to be safe , with two suffering minor injuries . In 2014 , Cuba sent 103 nurses and 62 doctors to help fight the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa , the biggest contribution of health care staff by any single country
2005 Kashmir earthquake
2005 Kashmir earthquake
Cuban medical internationalism