Havana, Feb 23 (ACN) Over six thousand people have undergone kidney transplants in Cuba since the first such surgical proceeding was successfully carried out here on February 24, 1970.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban president, highlighted today on Twitter the solidarity role of Cuban medicine, whose brigades have served almost a third of the world's population in 61 years.

The vice chief of the Cuban medical mission in the Venezuelan Capital District, Rodolfo Perez, announced that the 75 members of the working brigade of the field hospital set up in the Poliedro de Caracas have already been vaccinated with the anti-COVID-19 Sputnik V vaccine.

The vice governor of the Cuban province of Mayabeque, Manuel Aguiar Lamas, announced that the territory will soon have its own Molecular Biology Laboratory, which will increase the processing capacity of samples to identify cases of COVID-19.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 23 (ACN) In the six decades of Cuban medical collaboration abroad, its health personnel have assisted 1.988 billion people in the world, almost a third of mankind, said Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, director of the Central Unit for Medical Cooperation (UCCM).

Cuba studied 18,718 samples for COVID 19, resulting in 836 positive ones. The country accumulates 2,300,430 samples taken and 46,197 positive.

Oleksandr Yarema, state secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, highlighted the high level of Cuban medicine and congratulated the Caribbean nation's health professionals for the four anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidates that are in different phases of clinical trials.

Over six thousand people were diagnosed with COVID-19 in Cuba in the course of the last week, which is the highest number of infected people since the epidemic began to be confronted in the country almost a year ago.

Cuba reported the largest number of children confirmed with COVID 19 in February, some 4 thousand 984, over 2 thousand more than the figure reported in January, however no deaths of children from the corona virus disease have occurred.

The Molecular Biology Laboratory recently opened in Guantanamo successfully processed today the first samples using the PCR technique, an event celebrated by the local scientific community and showing the preparation of the 43 members of the group, most of them specialists in Microbiology.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 22 (ACN) Diabetes mellitus. A comprehensive look, is the text presented by Ciencias Medicas Publishing House, which is mainly aimed at health professionals who work in Primary Health Care, diabetologists and specialists who treat the complications associated with this disease.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, youth in this province responded to the call of the Provincial Defense Council and the Young Communist League (UJC) to cooperate with various impact tasks, with emphasis on the fight against the pandemic in communities and in hospital red zones.

Cuba studied 18,060 samples for COVID-19, resulting in 838 positive ones. The country accumulates 2,281,712 samples taken and 45,361 positive.

On February 22, when the 60th Polio Vaccination Campaign begins throughout Cuba, local resident Milagros Ramos recalls the day in 1962 when her son, who was then two years old, received the first dose of this medication, as part of the Cuban Revolution's efforts to eliminate contagious childhood diseases.