Cuban doctors working on the islands of Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines today rejected the US smear campaign launched against Cuban health workers and reaffirmed the will to continue saving lives.
Cuba has not reported any cases of hepatitis B among people under 15 years of age since 2007, thanks to the preventive administration of the Heberbiovac HB vaccine against that disease, it was reported on Saturday.
A first group of Cuban collaborators providing health services in Ecuador returned home on Tuesday from Guayaquil, and were received by the highest authorities of this eastern province.
Rosa Mireya Cardenas, representative from Ecuador to the Andean Parliament, thanked Cuba and its health professionals on Monday for their solidarity and support in this South American nation, and in the rest of the world.
Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, welcomed back the first group of health workers who returned from Bolivia for lack of guarantees of their physical integrity, after the rightist coup in that country.
The endoscopic treatment of biliopancreatic afflictions are on the table on Tuesday at the 7th International Congress, GastroCuba 2019, starting in Havana with the participation of specialists from about 10 countries.
Domestic and international rehabilitation specialists will speak about the use of robotics by disabled people during the 9th Congress of the Cuban Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
A Cuban Foreign Ministry top official rejected the US decision to deny visa to a medical delegation of the island meant to attend a forum of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO).
The statistics speak for themselves: almost 30 percent of the Cuban population will be over 60 by the end of the next decade.
The United States blockade limits academic exchange and development and causes millions of dollars in losses to Cuba’s biopharmaceutical industry, one of the country’s strategic economic sectors.
Cuba has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, a certification recently ratified by the World Health Organization (WHO), local media reported on Monday.
The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, highlighted the opening of a center for the care of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, a work he described as humane.
Nicaraguan doctor María Esther Betanco stressed on Wednesday the importance of Cuban medical cooperation given the quality and professionalism of the island’s doctors.
The Cuban Public Health Ministry launched a Twitter campaign this Tuesday from 10:00 am local time, with the purpose of challenging the media campaign against the island’s medical cooperation efforts in over 60 countries of the world.
In 56 years of medical collaboration carried out by Cuba across the world, more than 1.855 billion patients have been treated by Cuban health professionals.
The increase of cases of dengue in the Americas region has placed Cuba on alert, where efforts are ongoing across all sectors to control the vector and avoid the spread of viruses, reported WednesdayDr. Francisco Duran.
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The number of Nicaraguans benefiting from Operation Miracle in the first half of the current year surpassed the number operated on in the same period of 2018 by 14percent, a report from the Ministry of Health (Minsa) stressed on Thursday.
Jamaica’s health system will have more collaborators from Cuba, a country that has been helping in this field since 1976 and today has more than 200 doctors in that Caribbean nation.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel denounced that the Brazilian head of State, Jair Bolsonaro, lies about the Cuban doctors in that country, and acts with servility towards the United States.
