Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez hailed the return of the Cuban medical brigade sent to assist Türkiye following the earthquakes of February 6.

After intense days of work, the collaborators of the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics who assisted the population of Türkiye, affected by terrible earthquakes, returned to Cuba this Saturday.

Cuban first deputy minister of public health ( MINSAP by itsa Spanish acronym), Tania Margarita Cruz, is making a working visit to Russia to exchange with Russian authorities and business representatives on the possibilities of bilateral cooperation.

Japan’s Non-government organization Camaquito and its embassy in Cuba signed cooperation accords with the health sector in this Eastern Cuban province to contribute to the new born medical assistance program.

Due to the reduction of premature mortality from lung cancer, constant monitoring at the hospital level and actions to ensure the quality of life of patients, the incidence of oncological diseases is decreasing in Santiago de Cuba.

The University of Medical Sciences of Havana (UCMH by its Spanish acronym) graduated 715 new health professionals, in 22 programs of Medical Sciences by ordinary full-time course.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, highlighted today the importance of the new International Treaty on Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, in the sustainable use of life and ecosystems in the oceans.

The Agriculture sector in Cuba intends to surpass this year the production record of plant mass delivered in 2022 to the three fundamental destinations of the Health system in the country, said Lisbet Avello Romero, head of the National Program of Medicinal Plants, in this central city.

Esteban Lazo Hernandez, President of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State, mourned today the death of the eminent Dr. Rodrigo Alvarez Cambra.

At a meeting Tuesday with health care experts and scientists, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel described as promising the ongoing research undertaken by the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) to treat such a complex disease as cancer.

Cuba should take special care of sharks of the Carcharhinidae species, traditionally captured to market their fins and other parts, according to the expert José Alberto Álvarez Lemus, Administrative Authority of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in the country.

High-level meetings between Cuba and Azerbaijan ratified today in Baku, the common will to strengthen cooperation in health.

After the devastating earthquakes that had as epicenter the province of Kahramanmaras, in Türkiye, Cuban health professionals have carried out more than 2,500 procedures in ICU of the hospital of that territory.

The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States government against the Cuban people violates the right to life and health in the country, and causes millions of dollars in losses every year, as it happens every day in the Cardiology Service of the Manuel Ascunce Domenech Provincial Hospital in this eastern city.