FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva received Cuba”s permanent representative to this United Nations organization, Jose Carlos Rodriguez.
The 500th cochlear implant in Cuba was performed at the Borrás-Marfan pediatric hospital in the capital, coinciding with the international day of this medical procedure, informed the Ministry of Public Health.
Residents in San Antonio Cape, the westernmost tip of Cuba, are present Sunday at the polls to support the new Cuban Magna Carta.
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics demand an integrated watch of this phenomenon, said here a Cuban specialist during an international workshop held at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri (IPK).
Considered the second cause of death in Cuba, cancer shows an upward trend in terms of new cases, however mortality has a tendency, a specialist told Prensa Latina.
The First International Symposium on Quality Health 2019 will take place in this capital from March 27 to 29 with the attendance of prestigious national and foreign organizations, the organizers has announced.
Health authorities of the Calixto Garcia hospital in Havana offered Tuesday details of the state of 19 people who have received care in that institution after injuries suffered on Sunday during a strong tornado.
The Cuban Vice Minister of Public Health, Marcia Cobas, arrived on Wednesday in South Africa as part of a tour of African countries with the intention of reviewing the existing cooperation and promoting new projects in that sector.
Cuba”s President Miguel Diaz-Canel denounced Saturday attempts to impose the Cuban Medical Parole Program, established by the U.S. government of George W. Bush (2001-2009) and repealed by that of Barack Obama (2009-2017).
More than 95 thousand children were immunized in Cuba during 2018 with the triple viral vaccine (PRS), highlights the United Nations Children”s Fund in Cuba (Cuba-Unicef).
The Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK) of Cuba called the 16th International Course on Dengue, Zika and other Emerging Arboviruses, to be held from August 12 to 23, 2019.
Patients from some Dominican cities are already among those assisted, as part of Petrocaribe”s cooperation agreements, local media reported Monday.
Cuban health professional Juan Francisco Rojas said in Havana on Friday that during his mission in Brazil”s More Doctors program, he treated human beings who had never seen a doctor before.
A group of 204 Cuban health collaborators who worked on Brazil”s More Doctors program returned to the island on Friday as a result of the hostile attitude of the South American country”s president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel paid tribute Tuesday to the eight medicine students shot on November 27, 1871 by Spanish colonialism.
Cuban women make up today 69 percent of health and social assistance professionals since they took on the challenge of becoming doctors and nurses, two professions that were denied to them in the past.
Cuba”s decision to withdraw doctors serving in Brazil has the full backing of the medical team that is currently working in Uruguay”s public health.
The Brazilian people and political and social organizations have reacted to the end of the Cuban presence in the More Doctors Program due to the hostile attitude of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, and recognized the work by the Cuban physicians.
The Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) celebrates its 20th anniversary with the commitment to continue training women and men of science and conscience to contribute from Cuba to the unity and integration of nations.
The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) on Monday defended the integrity of the Cuban doctors who are working in Brazil and condemned the derogatory statements by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro about them.
