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.

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.