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All Cuban medical workers return home from W Africa after Ebola fight

Xinhua, May 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

The last group of Cuban health workers battling the Ebola epidemic in Western Africa have returned home, Cuba's official news agency said Saturday.

The 24 doctors and male nurses, who arrived from Guinea on Friday night, stayed longer than scheduled in the African country at the request of their host, according to the National Information Agency (AIN).

Since early October 2014, Cuba sent 256 medical workers to Western Africa in response to the call by the World Health Organization and the United Nations for help in stopping the deadly virus, which has taken over 10,000 lives.

The health staff are scheduled to go through a process of sanitary control and epidemiological surveillance before returning to their homes.

Cuba welcomed back the first group of 158 doctors and male nurses on March 23, coming from Liberia and Sierra Leone. Endi