"When I put on a personal protection suit to enter the Red Zone for the first time, I felt proud and fearful at the same time, because I knew I would be coming face to face with death". This is what Dalexis Curbelo Vidal, a doctor from Banálava, told me, a member of the Henry Reeve Brigade, a professional who carries firmness and humanism sewn into his heart and who has faced covid-19 on more than one occasion outside our borders.
Being part of this brigade of angels in white coats, who from anonymity become heroes, changed this young doctor's life. "In 2008, when I was an intern in the specialty of general comprehensive medicine, I was selected to join this Brigade, but it was not until last year 2020, when the world began to be hit by this pandemic, that I was activated by the National Command Post and I went on an international mission to the Middle East, specifically to the United Arab Emirates, where I spent about four months. The work there was satisfactory, we had a very good relationship with other colleagues from that country and we gave the best of ourselves, because we went to provide health and humanity, which is what characterizes us as Cubans".