The office of Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos (SMC) in this province promotes health tourism in the destination Jardines del Rey through a specialized care program that includes dolphin-assisted therapy and other medical services.

Cuba has made progress in 2023 with a view to eliminating all hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) gases by 2030, and is drawing up a plan to do the same with chlorofluorocarbons, widely used in refrigeration, foams and aerosols, and in the production of new products .

Cuba's infant mortality rate will drop to 7.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023, with the westernmost province, Pinar del Rio, having the lowest rate of 3.1 per 1,000 live births.

The government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana asked Cuba to expand the number of health professionals in that country, particularly nurses due to a current shortage of health personnel.

During a visit to a medical facilities in this city together with Susely Morfa González, first secretary of the Communist Party in the province, and Governor Mario Sabines Lorenzo, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz insisted on the need to provide quality services, streamline the programs designed for the elderly, and protect the benefits and humanist nature of the existing system.

As 2023 draws to a close, Primary Health Care stands as a key pillar of the Cuban Revolution, whose strength lies in a great army of highly qualified white-coated professionals ready to provide quality medical assistance to the population.

Abexol, a natural product in suspension form, is available for the first time in Cuban pharmacies and other outlets.

Through the joint venture MCV Comercial S.A., Cuba purchased a batch of 99 ambulances to be used mostly to provide emergency medical services, as well as to transport patients to treatment facilities.

Cuba and its scientific development set guidelines in 2023 at the national and international level, which showed that its strategies are a genuine fruit of the Revolution and its architect: Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.

Current cooperation relations between Havana’s Molecular Immunology Center and the US Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is an example of the potential for scientific exchange between the US and the Cuban peoples, said Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and Cuban President.

Today, Maylin and Mayelin Tellez Bruzon, the first Siamese twins in Latin America to survive a surgical intervention to separate them, are 50 years old in this Cuban eastern city, happy and in excellent health.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, visited today the Liorad base business unit, belonging to the Aica Pharmaceutical Laboratories of the Group of the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries of Cuba (BioCubaFarma).

The Cuban Isotope Center (CENTIS by its Spanish acronym) showed its interest in collaborating with the Academy for International Business Officials (AIBO) from the People's Republic of China in the research, development, production and commercialization of radiopharmaceuticals.