As every May 12, we celebrate today International Nursing Day, in commemoration of Florence Nightingale´s birth, founder of this profession, a woman of health and renewing conceptions, which marked a starting point for development in health systems in the world.
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom, said during a press conference that the worst is to come regarding the pandemic and criticized countries that have minimized measures to prevent the spread of the disease.
To face Covid-19 we have in Cuba a well-conceived Prevention and Control Plan, we work as a team, and we observe the best international experiences, he Minister of Public Health, Jose Angel Portal said in the Round Table TV program.
At the close of Monday, March 23, eight new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed, for a total of 48 in the island.
The director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, announced that the first test of a Coronavirus vaccine finally began.
“We cannot say that in Cuba there is transmission of Covid-19, because those infected are imported or people with close contacts with patients from abroad,” Francisco Duran, director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health explained in the Roundtable TV program.
Several nations announced on Sunday more border closures and restrictions on the internal displacement of their citizens, in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus, with a presence already in 144 countries.
Chaired by Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, representatives of the central provinces, Matanzas, Sancti Spiritus, Cienfuegos, Ciego de Avila y Villa Clara a regional meeting is held to evaluate the implementation of the strategy on the plan of measures for the prevention and control of the new Coronavirus.
As a result of the consolidation of the National Health System, the integral development of the sector’s programs and the continued implementation of advances in science, 2019 showed progress in the main indicators despite the upsurge in the cruel blockade.
Cuba exhibited this Thursday its experience in eliminating mother-to-child transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, at one of the parallel events of the Conference on South-South Cooperation held in Buenos Aires.
Cuba made a “painful, but necessary” decision to conclude its participation in the More Doctors Program in Brazil, Cuban Minister of Public Health Jose Angel Portal Miranda said in an interview with Cubadebate.
HAVANA, Cuba.- In the context of the International Convention on Public Health, attended by Minister of Health Roberto Morales, a premise stood out: Cuba shares what it has, not what is left over. “Our country has a South-South medical cooperation experience of fifty five years, a reflection of the island’s foreign policy,” Vice- Minister of […]
Cuba is the best model and example to show what it has done in universal coverage or what is the same, health for all, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in the Convention Palace of Havana.
The director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and Issa Etienne, at the head of the Pan-American Health Organization, cut the inaugural ribbon at the fourteenth Health for All Trade Fair, dedicated to Fidel´s legacy, to Raul and to the Cuban people.
With health coverage in all its geography and achievements at different levels of care, Cuba will celebrate the World Health Day, established on April 7.
The World Health Organization, WHO, registered twenty thousand suspected cases of cholera and one hundred deaths by the epidemic over the last three days in Yemen.
