Healthcare in Cuba is a basic human right stipulated by the Constitution of the Republic and backed by the implementation of the Public Health Law.

More than 600 delegates from 38 countries will gather at the Plaza America Convention Center for the 2nd edition of the international congress BioHabana, which begins tonight in the seaside resort city and will be attended by George Pearson, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.

Based on Marti's premise that "it is not received and casual intelligence that gives man honor, but how he uses and saves it, for serving is the only way to live on", the 3rd International Scientific Congress “University-Society 2024”, organized by the University of Matanzas (UM), kicked off in this city.

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC by its Spanish acronym) mourned the death, at 65, of Amelia Capote Rodriguez, PhD in Biological Sciences since 1993, Agricultural Engineer, Professor and Senior Researcher at the Alejandro de Humboldt Institute for Fundamental Research in Tropical Agriculture (INIFAT by its Spanish acronym).

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that the island’s medical brigade in Haiti keeps working although with limitations imposed by the circumstances and only with crucial personnel.

PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, Mar 15 (ACN) After finishing the work of waterproofing the roofs of the Abel Santamaria Cuadrado general teaching hospital, Pinar del Rio has reestablished the elective ophthalmologic surgery service.

The Institute of Nephrology "Dr. Abelardo Buch Lopez" and the Cuban Society of Nephrology (SCN) will develop from today the 11th National Congress, which will be held in Havana until March 15, 2024.

The Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (Cecmed by its Spanish acronym) granted the Conditional Sanitary Registration to Nasalferon, a nasal application solution for the prophylaxis of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Cuba and Rwanda ratified their will to strengthen ties in the field of health care with the signing of a memorandum of understanding by the Ministers of both countries, namely José Ángel Portal and Sabin Nsanzimana, respectively.

Faced with the growing trend of population aging in the cental province of Sancti Spiritus, a territory with the third highest longevity rate in Cuba, this territory is strengthening comprehensive interdisciplinary care for the elderly in different areas of health and social institutions.

An unusual event overturned Dr. Niurys Aguilar Ramirez's on-call duty on February 29 when she received Henry Cristian, a 13-year-old boy with a life-threatening harpoon in his abdominal area, at the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Pediatric Hospital in this central-eastern Cuban city.

The National Center of Applied Electromagnetism of the University of Oriente, in this eastern city, favors the operation of rehabilitation therapies with the local magnetic stimulator Nak, created to reduce pain and inflammations.

On the occasion of International Cochlear Implant Day, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stressed that the national cochlear implant program, one of the most sensitive and humane policies launched by the Revolution which has benefited more than 500 deaf and deaf-blind patients, remains a priority of the Cuban health system despite the shortages caused by the U.S. blockade.

In a ceremony presided by José Angel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health, 905 graduates received their diplomas from various schools of Havana’s University of Medical Sciences.