The William Soler Pediatric Hospital and the Institute of Gastroenterology received donations this weekend from the U.S. solidarity organizations CodePink and Bridges of Love, the Foreign Ministry said today.

A group of 16 results achieved in 2023 by the Agency for Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies (AENTA by its Spanish acronym) for their contribution to knowledge and some in collaboration with the Russian Federation and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Cuban doctor Alfredo Dario Espinosa, who bears the tittle of Cuban Labor Hero, was granted the Pan-American Health Organization's Award for Health Services Management and Leadership 2023.

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC by its Spanish acronym)expressed its condolences for the recent death at the age of 88 of Emilio Garcia Capote, one of the country's first analysts on issues of scientific and technological policy and its relations with economic and social development.

As a result of scientific work in the institutions belonging to the Ministry of Higher Education (MES by its Spanish acronym) during 2023, more than 1,300 projects were developed, which contributed to national, sectoral, territorial and business programs.

A unique project in Cuba to reduce the danger, vulnerability and risk to diseases and the negative impact of climate change, through the interrelation of disciplines is being developed in the province of Holguin.

Two new and fully equipped ambulances manufactured by the Chinese company Foton arrived in the province of Guantánamo to reinforce the services of the Integrated Medical Emergency System.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called on the people to closely follow the suggestions by the World Health Organization (WHO) amidst the increase of cases of COVID-19 and other acute respiratory conditions around the world.

Concepción Campa Huergo, receiver of the degree of Doctor honoris causa from of the University of Havana, was granted the Pro Patria Award, established in 2022 by the Economic Society of Friends of the Country (SEAP) for outstanding scientific groups who excelled in the fight against COVID-19.

Cuba maintains active clinical-epidemiological and microbiological surveillance at all levels of care of the National Health System, including border transit, assured Jose Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban minister of public health on X.

Up to September 2023, more than 2,600 incidents were detected in Cuba through the National Cybersecurity Center and the Security Operations Center of the Telecommunications Company (Etecsa by its Spanish acronym).

In commemoration of Cuban Science Day, the publishing house Editorial Científico-Técnica is launching ScD Luis Velázquez Pérez’s book Las ataxias en Cuba - Biografía de un proyecto (Ataxias in Cuba, biography of a project) in a presentation co-sponsored by the Culture and Social Sciences Sections of the Economic Society of Friends of the Country.

The scientific community of the province of Ciego de Avila ratified today the willingness to increase its work in terms of sustainable development, encouraged by the declaration of the province as Outstanding in emulation for the Cuban Science Day, to be held next January 15.

While marking 40 years of the Family Doctor and Nurse Program, local authorities in this eastern province stressed the achievement of family medicine, including a stable epidemiological scenario during 2023.