Cuban Dengue fast diagnostic and vaccine projects are well advanced with possible concrete results this year, according to authorities with the BioCubaFarma Farmaceutical Conglomerate.

José Ángel Portal, Minister of Public Health, highlighted today that Cuba has strengthened its ties with Algeria in the field of health care through a new agreement with his Algerian counterpart, Abdelhak Saihi during the 23rd session of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission.

Cuba and Algeria affirmed on Tuesday their commitment to keep and expand medical cooperation during a meeting between the health ministers of both nations.

Cuban collaborators of the "Henry Reeve" International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Situations of Disasters and Serious Epidemics arrived this Sunday in Türkiye to contribute to save lives and help in the recovery of the victims of the devastating earthquake that affected that country and Syria.

A Cuban medical brigade made up of members of the Henry Reeve Contingent is traveling to Turkey to attend to the victims of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, with a preliminary toll of over 22,000 fatalities, while the number of injured has reached 76,132.

The Department of Animal Health, ascribed to the provincial Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture in Guantanamo, has adopted extreme surveillance measures to avoid the penetration and propagation of avian influenza in the eastern territory, after confirming an outbreak of that infectious disease in wild birds in the Havana Zoological Garden.

Cooperation in public health and medical sciences between Cuba and Cyprus was strengthened today with the signing of a memorandum of understanding by authorities of both nations, specifically related to pharmaceutical products and educational activity.

Some 23 thousand 792 Cuban health workers are currently offering their services in 56 countries and more than 2 thousand 200 of them are from the eastern province of Guantanamo.

Major General Ramon Pardo Guerra, head of the National General Staff of the Civil Defense, checked in this city the assembly of the new Oxygen Plant for the eastern region of Cuba, currently at 33 % of execution.

Havana, Feb 6 (ACN) Cuba’s Health Ministry said that the recent death of several newborn under intensive care assistance for their low weight and premature birth at Havana’s “Diez de Octubre” Gynecologic Hospital was due to an infection associated to medical care.

Cuba keeps the tendency to control Covid-19, when at the end of Sunday only five new cases of the disease were reported, and no deaths occurred due to this cause.

 Two children's hospitals in this city received a donation of 2,000 pounds of powdered milk and more than a hundred bottles of acetaminophen from the project Puentes de Amor (Bridges of Love) and the organization Code Pink as part of the actions to help Cuba and fight the U.S. blockade.

 Cuba is holding today the Day of the Mole, an active national screening campaign aimed at raising awareness among the population about the incidence of skin cancer, increasing the perception of risk and making early diagnosis of malignant lesions.