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.
Cuba will Expand Medical Cooperation with Guyana in 2024
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.
Prime Minister insists on quality of care and services
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.
Community Medicine, a mainstay of the Revolution
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.
Cuba markets new medicine in suspension form
Abexol, a natural product in suspension form, is available for the first time in Cuban pharmacies and other outlets.
New ambulances arrive in Cuba
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, paradigms of its scientific development in 2023
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.
Cuban President Stresses US-Cuba Scientific Potential
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.
Latin America's first siamese twins to survive separation mark their 50th birthday
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.
Diaz-Canel visits technology and health companies of BioCubaFarma
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).
Radiopharmaceuticals, interesting for Chinese and Cuban researchers
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.
Cuban health minister highlights community leadership in HIV response
Cuban Public Health Minister Jose Angel Portal Miranda highlighted today community leadership in the response to the HIV epidemic, on the occasion of World AIDS Day, celebrated on December 1.
Cuba hosts World Day of Action Against HIV/AIDS
An extensive program of activities with a preventive approach to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) was successfully developed in health units and neighborhoods in transformation of the easternmost province of Guantanamo, with the active participation of citizens and members of the Cuban network of people living with these diseases.
Cuban emblematic hospital celebrates its 41st Scientific Convention
The Clinical Surgical Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras is holding the 41st edition of the Annual Scientific Convention from November 21 to next Friday 1st on the occasion of its foundation by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, on December 3, 1982.
Cuban-Italian company, from hygiene, to support sensitive sectors
Accompanying women in the different processes they naturally go through, due to their biological condition, is an act of solidarity and support for those who are pillars of individual and collective development of society.







