An international colloquium on the application of standardization during the COVID-19 pandemic and afterwards, brings together today in Havana, in person and virtually, professionals from Brazil, Cuba and Chile.

With the presence of specialists from 16 countries, including Cuba, the 9th Cuban Congress of Hematology, Hematology 2023, opened today at the Convention Center in Havana until May 19.

The Cuban Environment Agency (AMA by its Spanish acronym) announced in Havana the promotion of a new project called Thalassia testudinum, one of the species that are part of the Cuban seagrasses.

With the aim of supporting the services of the Maternal and Child Care Program, Pinar del Rio received today a donation made up of basic kits, medicines and medical supplies that can be spent.

 AICA Laboratories, which belongs to the BioCubaFarma business group and is responsible for the supply of 190 medicines of the national basic drug list, resumed in recent months a group of high-demand products, such as dental analgesics, Thiopental and serums, widely used in public health institutions.

The support of Cuban doctors to the health system of the region of Calabria, in Italy, was highlighted during a conference at the University La Sapienza, in that European country.

A medical team of a pediatric hospital in the province of Holguín saved the life of a 17-month-old baby who swallowed the spring of a clothespin and was having symptoms of respiratory distress and inflammation on arrival, which made surgery impossible at first.

Cuban Health minister Jose Angel Portal Miranda thanked the young workers in the sector for their contribution to international missions and stressed their role in favoring the sustainability of the local health system.

The 4th Convention and 3rd Expofair of the University of Las Tunas, to be held on May 16 to 19 in this eastern Cuban province, is intended to promote exchanges among professionals from several countries who will share their scientific and technical experiences with a view to development and social welfare based on the training of professionals and the impact of Cuban universities on the country’s current social processes.

The main results of cancer research in Cuba were presented today in the province of Holguin(eastern Cuba), on the occasion of the workshop dedicated to this disease.

Cuban Prime Minister attended Monday the annual report meeting of the Health Ministry which considered the sector’s performance in 2022, a year which brough important challenges, along with projections for this year.

Julien Morejón Almeida, who joined the Red Cross in the province of Artemisa some 20 years ago after graduating as a lifeguard and is now head of relief operations, is proud to celebrate the organization’s World Day today.

So far Cuba has no reports of the new variant of the Omicron xbb.1.16 coronavirus (also called Arcturus), which is already circulating in more than 30 countries, with most cases in India, said Francisco Duran Garcia, national director of epidemiology of the Cuban public health ministry.

José Angel Portal Miranda, Cuba's Minister of Public Health, and Alena Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, met Wednesday to discuss the impact of the U.S. blockade on Cuba’s health care system.