The 1st International Multidisciplinary Meeting of Health Sciences begins today in the Cuban province of Cienfuegos with the sponsorship of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of Santiago de Compostela University and the College of Dentists of La Coruña, both from Spain.

Advances in the treatment of peripheral vascular diseases will be exposed today at the 11th Caribbean Congress of the Cuban Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery (SCACV), Angiocaribe 2019, to be held until December 7th at the Plaza America Convention Center, in Varadero, Matanzas.

The Minister of Public Health of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Oh Chun Bok, and her Cuban counterpart, Jose Angel Portal Miranda, signed a MOU to strengthen the exchange and cooperation between the two ministries.

Authorities from the Jamaican Ministry of Health and Welfare officially received 40 Cuban health professionals who will serve the Caribbean nation for three years.

The Minister of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, Nurmuhammet Amannepesov, considered Cuban health system to be a world model, making it one of the best on the planet.

Representatives of almost 40 countries and from the Pan American and World Health Organizations (PAHO/WHO) gathered in Havana for the Ibero-American Network/Council of Donation and Transplantation (RCIDT) meeting, and will also celebrate today the World Day for Donation of Organs, Tissue and Transplantation.

We did our duty, we raised Cuba's name high which is the most important thing, the Ecuadorian people love us and cried for us after the government's news of concluding cooperation agreements, said Cuban collaborators in Ecuador.

Cuba and Kazakhstan will expand their cooperation in the fields of biotechnology and health, with the visit to the Eurasian country of an important delegation composed of representatives of the Cuban business group Biocubafarma and the Centre for Molecular Immunology.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel denounced today on Twitter the harassment and violence suffered by Cuban health personnel in Bolivia after the coup d'etat perpetrated against former President Evo Morales.

The King and Queen of Spain, Felipe VI and Letizia, learned today about the advances of the Cuban biotechnology industry in tackling cancer by visiting the facilities of the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM).

Doctors from Cuba and the United States are working together to rehabilitate patients suffering from knee and hip arthrosis as part of a joint project between health institutions in the Caribbean nation and Operation Walk in US.

The First Cuba-Japan Business Forum on Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals was held today at the Cuban Embassy to that Asian country, with the presence of Vice President of the Council of Ministers Roberto Morales, and a broad representation of Japanese companies and Cuban experts.