HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro has dispatched the first group of 165 Cuban doctors and nurses to West Africa to help combat an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, official media reported on Thursday.
The 62 doctors and 103 nurses departed late Wednesday for Sierra Leone, one of three West African countries hardest hit by the virus, after more than two weeks of training with international experts at a Havana hospital specializing in tropical diseases, the Communist Party newspaper Granma reported.
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