For its contribution to knowledge, the Center for Radiation Protection and Hygiene (CPHR by its Spanish acronym) proposed to the Cuban Academy of Sciences Award its most outstanding scientific-technical result in 2022.

The two medical oxygen plants located in the Vladimir Ilich Lenin University Teaching Hospital in the city of Holguin were opened on Tuesday as part of the investments being made in the public health sector.

A group of 50 Cuban doctors arrived in Calabria, southern Italy, to provide assistance in that region, which is facing a health emergency due to lack of personnel.

A project called Community Development and Adaptation based on watershed management in the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park (PNAH) consolidates the Sendai Framework (2015-2030) for sustainable development and resilience of communities and ecosystems, according to Sc. D. Bárbaro Zabala Lahite, a researcher with the local unit of environmental services who participates in this initiative together with experts from Mexico, Dominican Republic and Guatemala.

The rise in one degree Celsius of the average annual temperature in the province of Guantánamo between 2017 and 2019 favored infestation by the Aedes aegypti mosquito and the transmission of dengue, according to the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology (CPHEM).

Covid-19 transmission has increased in Cuba, Minister of Public Health José Angel Portal Miranda reported to the Temporary Working Group for prevention and control at a meeting presided by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez attended on Tuesday ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the BioCubaFarma pharmaceutical conglomerate and the 30th year Western Havana Scientific Centers.

Some 119 Cuban medical doctors will depart for Mexico in January to join a group of their colleagues who are already working in that country’s healthcare centers, according to Zoe Robledo, director of the National Social Security Institute.

 Tanalis Padilla, professor and researcher of history with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently said that Cuba is among powers like the US, the UK and China on the list of countries which develoed their own COVID-19 vaccines.

Rebel Army Commander Jose Ramon Machado Ventura made a working visit today to the Center for Research and Development of Medicines ( CIDEM) to follow up on the introduction of natural products.

After hard months of confronting COVID-19, in 2022 the National Health System (SNS by its Spanish acronym) was engaged in maintaining the control of the pandemic in Cuba and in the recovery of health activities, diminished as a result of the disease.

The deployment in Cuba of WHO’s One Health initiative includes a surveillance strategy based on the risk of an avian influenza emergency, which is essential for the prevention and early detection of this threat to animal and human health, said Doctor in Agricultural Sciences Nivían Montes de Oca Martínez, director-general of the National Center for Agricultural Health.

The 2022 graduation of the Havana Medical University was dedicated to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro.

The anti-COVID-19 vaccination day with the Cuban vaccine Abdala began this week in the 230 health centers of Mexico City, according to the Ministry of Health of the city, which today described the immunogen as safe and effective.