Thousands of Cuban specialists provide health services in dozens of countries throughout the planet, says the island report to the Human Rights Council of the UN.

The largest group is in Venezuela, where more than a million people have saved their lives in health centers run by staff of the Caribbean nation.

This was reported by Roberto Lopez, head of the Cuban missions in the South American country, referring to attacks from opposition groups against these facilities. Venezuela was the first recipient of the Operation Miracle, which Cuba, since 2004 introduced to restore eyesight to thousands of people in the world.

Up to January 2012 more than two million eye operations had been performed, that benefited patients from 34 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa.

Since 1998, three thousand 774 Cuban health collaborators have worked in Haiti. Such assistance rescued from death thousands of Haitians after the devastating January 2010 earthquake.

International organizations have recognized the support of Havana to confronting the cholera epidemic in Haiti.

The aid to other nations includes training health professionals. The Latin American School of Medicine graduated nine thousand 960 doctors from 58 countries in the 2005-2011 period.

Cuba's international medical collaboration dates back to the early sixties of last century, when a medical contingent served in the newly independent Algeria.

The Henry Reeve Brigade, specialized in aiding victims of disasters and epidemics, has attended more than three million injured and 33 thousand 800 surgeries were performed. That brigade staff attended the Chilean people affected by the earthquake of 2010, with 37 thousand 463 consultations and one thousand 384 major surgeries performed.