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.

Scientists with Havana’s Genetic Engineering and Biotech Center (CIGB) marked the second year since the start of clinical trials phase II for the candidate Vaccine Abdala, which became the first COVID-19 vaccine in Latin America.

On the occasion of World Day for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), the Cuban Ministry of Public Health ( MINSAP) stressed today the importance of including these diseases in the international health agenda, with a view to eradicating them.

Since 2019, professionals from different specialties of the Cuban health system have been working on a new Public Health Law, whose draft will be submitted for analysis in the first quarter of this year with workers in the sector, deputies and the population in general.

The Cuban anti-pneumococcal vaccine, Quimi-Vio, is about to apply for sanitary registration before the National Regulatory Authority, the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV) reported today.

The German Bayer chemical-pharmaceutical company granted its Medical Science award to Cuban scientist Yanira Mendez Gomez.

Lung cancer is the first cause of death in men and the second in women in Pinar del Rio, followed by breast cancer, hence the western territory has consolidated the timely detection and care of patients in health institutions.

To support health services in the western province of Artemisa and the special municipality of Isle of Youth, a contingent of 27 recently graduated doctors from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the province of Granma was flagged off today in this city.