The formation of human resources in health is a priority in the sector to meet universal coverage of the Cuban health system and the international commitments of medical cooperation, said Jorge González Pérez, rector of Havana Medical Sciences University (UCMH by its Spanish acronym) .

Cuban Public Health Minister Roberto Morales, member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, gave on Thursday in this capital a Cuban flag to the medical brigade that left for Chile to mitigate the effects of the disaster caused by heavy rain.

The last group of Cuban doctors and nurses that fought Ebola in Sierra Leone arrived this Wednesday in Cuba from that Western Africa country,

Experts of the Pan-American and World Health organizations praised the results of the program of eastern Santiago de Cuba province to prevent and eliminate the mother-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and syphilis.

Theodor Friedrich, representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), asserted on Tuesday in this city that in Cuba there's political willingness to boost productive practices without degrading soils.

Cuba's Deputy Health Minister, Doctor Marcia Cobas, announced that 28 ministers have already confirmed their attendance to the International Health Convention that will be held in this capital on April 20-24.

The draft of landscape approach to conservation in Cuba of mountain ecosystems contributes to the preservation of the environment and sustainable development, said today in this city Myrta Kaulard, representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Nearly half a million Cuban children will be immunized at the 54th National Anti- Polio Vaccination Campaign, which first phase will take place from March 9 to 15, Dr. Miguel Angel Galindo, an official of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym), announced.

More than 260 Pakistani physicians will graduate on Friday in this city, Muhammad Rashid Usman, representative of the doctors-to-be at the University of Medical Sciences of Sancti Spiritus, told ACN.

Since its founding on February 26, 1989, by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, Havana's International Center for Neurological Restoration (CIREN) has received 120,000 patients of 93 countries, including Cuba.

The signing of more than twenty interuniversity cooperation agreements in just two exchanging days was the result of the 13th Cuba-Mexico Meeting of Rectors which concluded here yesterday.

The Cuban medical brigade working in Sierra Leone has cured, since October, 260 persons infected by the Ebola fever virus.

The Cuban Institute of Meteorology reported that early Friday morning it registered a record one Celsius degree in the town of Union Reyes, in western Matanzas province, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Cuba for the month of February.

Discussions of the First National Workshop on Computerization and Cybersecurity, headquartered in Havana, are resumed today at the Research Center of Integrated Technologies (CITI by its Spanish acronym), at Jose Antonio Echeverria Higher Polytechnic Institute.