An epidemiological monitoring system developed by the company DATYS began to be implemented in Havana on February 15, with the purpose of ensuring that the health system and patients obtain the PCR test results in the shortest possible time.
Second Cuban COVID vaccine ready for Phase III clinical trials
Cuba has technological platforms, professional experience, genetic engineering and the capacity to conjugate vaccine candidates to obtain better immunogens, which is why the country is moving forward with four anti-Covid-19 vaccine projects.
Cuban Health Workers Honored in Turks and Caicos Islands
The members of the Cuban Henry Reeve Medical Contingent assisting the people on the Turks and Caicos Islands were honored with the prize known as Heroes of the Pandemic.
Havana Authorities Call to Strengthen COVID Protection in Labor Centers
The president of Havana’s Defense Council Luis Antonio Torres Iribar urged labor center executives and workers to strengthen sanitary measures to prevent the appearance of new COVID-19 clusters that later may spread to the community.
Phase III of Cuban anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidates to be launched soon
Phase III of the Cuban anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidates Soberana 02 and Abdala will begin in the coming weeks, Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of the Cuban Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industry Group (BioCubaFarma), announced today.
Efforts still underway for the return of Cuban doctors kidnapped in Kenya
Cuban Minister of Public Health José Ángel Portal Miranda said that the country is still devoted to the safe return to Cuba of internationalist doctors Assel Herrera and Landy Rodríguez Hernández, kidnapped in Kenya on April 12, 2019.
Cuba Starts Mass Production of Second COVID Candidate Vaccine
Cuba announced the start of large-scale production of its COVID 19 candidate vaccine Abdala, after opening the mass output last week of its most advanced vaccine known as Soberana 02.
Youths in red zones hold COVID-19 has made us better persons
Jorge Carlos Montesinos, 23, describes himself as a better person after working for two months directly with Covid-19 patients in the red zone of a local polyclinic.
Antigen tests conducted in central Cuba
As an alternative for the early detection and containment of COVID-19, in the midst of the complex epidemiological situation here, the province of Villa Clara promotes the use of rapid antigen tests in primary health care and acute respiratory infections consultations.
COVID-19 convalescent patients, a priority for the Cuban health system
Between 30% and 40% of convalescent COVID-19 patients need adjustments in their base disease once they recover from the disease, said Dr. Emilio Fidel Buchaca Faxas, president of the Cuban Society of Internal Medicine, who has studied around 80 of these patients to detect possible residual lesions caused by the virus.
Cuba: Over Six Thousand Free Kidney Transplants in Five Decades
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.
Diaz-Canel highlights Cuban medical solidarity
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.
Cuban collaborators in Venezuela are vaccinated with Sputnik V
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.
Cuban western province to have its own Molecular Biology Laboratory
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.
Cuba has assisted almost one third of the world's population in health care
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).