Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party and Cuban President congratulated health professionals with the national family doctor and nurse program on its 39th anniversary.

On the occasion of the 39th anniversary of the Family Doctor and Nurse Program, Cuban PM Manuel Marrero Cruz stressed today that this initiative of the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, has been the first battlefront of the country's health system.

Cuba reported at the close of Tuesday, 19 new positive cases of SARS-CoV-2, in another day with no deaths due to COVID-19, the Cuban ministry of public health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported today in its usual daily report.

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.