These 500 men included 17 in a medical brigade and 284 officers.

Following a medical brigade, buses were sent to each adopted community to transport referred patients to and from our partner organization.

Working with Pop Wuj, the Timmy Foundation has adopted three communities to which it provides basic primary care services on each medical brigade, roughly every two-to-three months.

Cuba's military forces appeared in Algeria, in 1963, when a military medical brigade came over from Havana to support the regime.

One effective development program in Haiti today is Cuba's medical brigades, the more than 500 doctors and nurses who work in hospitals and clinics throughout Haiti.

The 32nd Medical Brigade is a medical brigade in the United States Army formed in 1940.

Almost all Army civil affairs personnel who help rebuild war-torn nations reside in the reserve arm, as do more than 80 percent of medical brigades and psychological operations units.

The medical brigades work directly with populations living next to garbage dump communities, serving the poor who often have no other access to health care.

To date, the Cuban medical brigade has treated more than 50 000 cholera cases, enabled 76 health centres and hospitals to be rebuilt and operated on many Haitians.

In the wake of the February 27, 2010 earthquake, Cuba set up a temporary hospital in the city with a medical brigade of 27 doctors and 9 staff.