Jose Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban Minister of Public Health, reiterated today Cuba's commitment to use science, technology and innovation as fundamental tools to address global health challenges.

During the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Group of 77 and China taking place in Havana, José Ángel Portal Miranda, Cuba's Minister of Public Health, held meetings with representatives of Yemen, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and Syria, where they discussed issues related to medical cooperation and training of professionals in the sector, among others of interest.

Cuba and China signed, in Havana, new agreements to strengthen cooperation in biotechnology, during the closing of the 12th Meeting of the Joint Working Group on Biotechnology.

Cuba and China signed new accords to enhance bilateral cooperation in the biotechnology sector during the closing session, Thursday in Havana, of the 12th Meeting of the Joint Working Group on Biotechnology.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz congratulated today the staff of the Immunoassay Center on the 36th anniversary of its foundation and praised its contribution to the development of Cuban science, healthcare, and biopharmaceutical industry.

With the presence of Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, a meeting with experts and scientists was held on Monday to discuss the country's main health issues.

Over 11 thousand children between one and five years of age in this south-central Cuban province are being administered a homegrown candidate vaccine known as QuimiVio against the Pneumococci bacterium.

The 12 schools of the University of Medical Sciences of Havana (UCMH) will start the new school year with some 23,000 students.

Cuba will be represented at the 23rd Congress of Infectious Diseases, to be held on September 19 to 22 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, by Dr. Angel Arturo Escobedo Carbonell, a renowned 1st and 2nd Degree Specialist in Microbiology and Parasitology, who will give a lecture titled “Current knowledge in the treatment of intestinal parasites”.

A modern factory for the production of moringa powder for medicinal purposes was opened in this western province, in the presence of the member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz.

A multidisciplinary team of the Pediatric Hospital Octavio de la Concepcion y de la Pedraja in the province of Holguin (eastern Cuba) successfully removed a nut from the esophagus of a girl on Monday night.

I am the most recently identified diabetic child in the territory and in these days I learned new practices to move forward, said Oscar Luis Rodriguez Carmona during the closing of the second cycle of the provincial Summer Camp for children with diabetes in Matanzas(western Cuba).

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, mourned today the death at the age of 88 of PhD in Sciences Alfredo Ceballos Mesa, whom he described as an exceptional revolutionary, orthopedist and scientist.

Cuba’s Health Ministry acknowledged the Havana-based National Medical Genetics Center on its 20th year of work towards community-focused genetic development.