Cuba has sent its "armies of white coats" to disaster sites and disease outbreaks around the world since its 1959 leftist revolution.
Its doctors were in the front lines in the fight against cholera in Haiti and against ebola in West Africa in the 2010s.
The death toll from the earthquake, which struck Türkiye and Syria in the early hours of Monday, surpassed 24,000 four days after the quake rocked the region.
