Havana, Cuba.-U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Sylvia Burwell, begins a working visit to Cuba today, to be run until Saturday, October 22.
During her stay in the island, Burwell will hold a meeting with Cuban Public Health Minister, Roberto Morales. Both officials will review issues of the bilateral cooperation enshrined in the memorandum of understanding they signed in June, during the visit of Caribbean minister to the United States. During that visit, Morales and Burwell agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas such as confronting transmissible diseases, mainly those caused by arboviruses such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya, and the non-transmissible chronic ones such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension and their factors risk.
During this visit, the U.S. official will also meet with executives of the sector and tour health institutions and those of the medical, biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries.
Burwell will also participate in the Regional Meeting for Surveillance and Control Strategy of the Arboviruses, to be held in this capital on October 20 and 21.
Cuba: Angiologists from 16 Countries To Attend Congress
Havana, Oct 20 (Prensa Latina) Angiologists from 16 countries, most from the region, will participate in the 31st Latin American Congress of Vascular Surgery, which will open here from November 2nd to 4th, said organizers today.
Organized by the Pan American Health Organization and its regional office for the Americas, the congress will be attended by specialists from 13 Latin American countries: Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina Bolivia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Belize and the host country Cuba.
European specialists come from Germany and Italy.
President of the organizing committee Alejandro Hernandez said at a press conference that one of the objectives of the congress is the exchange of experiences for the prevention, early diagnosis and appropriate medical and surgical treatment of peripheral vascular diseases.
Angiology 2016, as the event is also known, will tackle other issues such as steno-occlusive disease of the aorta and its branches, as well as difficult healing ulcers and diabetic foot.
The event will be hosted by the International Health Center La Pradera, in west Havana, and will run along with the 10th Caribbean Congress of Angiology and Vascular Surgery.