Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, thanked on behalf of the Cuban people for the gesture of solidarity and endorsed the words of Reverend Joel Ortega, president of the Cuban Council of Churches, reports the Cuban News Agency (ACN). 

"I make Reverend Joel Ortega's words my own: we are showing that the world can be different, that a better world is possible, that together we can do more, that love can do more than hate and that peace is the most important thing." On behalf of #Cuba, THANK YOU," Díaz-Canel posted on his official Twitter account.

The donation delivered Monday by Felix Sharpe Caballero, Michigan representative of Project El pan (Sharing with the Cuban people), is destined for cancer hospitals in Havana and Holguin, plus the Salvation Army home for the elderly.

Sharpe Caballero called for the lifting of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba and assured that the donations show that Cuba is not alone.

According to ACN, Mark Friedman, coordinator of the Los Angeles-based Hands off Cuba Committee, announced the launching of its next medical aid campaign for the island, to raise 125,000 dollars to buy four anesthesia machines and 60 boxes of sutures and surgical instruments and equipment for the Calixto García hospital in Havana's El Vedado.

The donation is added to many others sent by Cubans living abroad and friends of the largest of the Antilles in the context of the crisis caused by the pandemic and the worsening of the restrictive policy of the U.S. government.