The event, which will be held from October 17 to 21 at the Havana Convention Center, will put the challenges of public health at the center of the debate to achieve the goal of universal health in a post-pandemic scenario and the response from the health sector to the devastating ones derived from the health crisis caused by covid-19.

Under the slogan “Universal Health, as part of the 2030 Health Agenda, in a post-Covid-19 context”, the scientific forum brings together more than 2,000 participants from 65 countries, including some twenty ministers, senior sector officials and more than 50 official delegations.

The extensive scientific program will facilitate debate on relevant topics such as the impact of climate change on health, the safety and quality of medical care, emerging and re-emerging diseases, the organization and operation of health systems to be more efficient and sustainable, antimicrobial resistance, new forms of international cooperation in health, research and innovation in health, as well as medical education, among other topics.

Manuel Marrero Cruz, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and Prime Minister, José Angel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health, Carissa Faustina Etienne, director of the Pan American Health Organization, among other specialists in the area were present at the meeting. .

As part of this event, three associated fairs are held: The XV Health for All Trade Fair; the 3rd Scientific Publishing Fair and the 1st Medical Tourism and Wellness Fair, which includes the 2nd Foreign Investment Forum.

In Cuba Salud 2022, an exhibition on the National Health System will also be exhibited, which will represent the areas of medical care, hygiene and teaching, science and innovation and health promotion.

According to Dr. Ileana Morales Suárez, director of Science and Technological Innovation of the Ministry of Public Health, the organization of this Convention conceives the harmonic integration of its scientific, exhibition and commercial activities. For its realization, it had the help of prestigious national and international entities and the official venues are the Convention Center of Havana, the Pabexpo fairgrounds and the University of Medical Sciences of Havana, whose precursor center, the Institute of Basic Sciences and Preclinical Victoria de Girón celebrates its sixtieth anniversary today.

“With this edition, the Cuba Salud conventions are ten years old, a decade of scientific activities aimed at dialogue and reception around global health in a period marked by complex challenges in the international arena. The four editions have focused their attention on relevant issues such as the quality and effectiveness of health systems, health for all and health coverage, universal health for sustainable development, and on this occasion they will speak in particular about health, freedom as part of the twenty thirty health agenda in the post scenario covid.

The meeting provides for a broad scientific program that will promote a debate on the current and future challenges of public health and will also delve into the opportunities gap related to health in public policies. The exchanges will include experts from 64 countries, so it is hoped that a consensus will be reached on the need to consider the improvement of the population’s health as a fundamental determinant of social development.

The scientific program has 310 activities included in 31 events and 1,611 scientific papers were approved.

(By: Lisandra Farinas Acosta)

Also present were Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, member of the secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and head of its Department of Attention to the Social Sector; Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba; Dr. José Angel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health of Cuba and Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization.

“Cuba is a health tourism destination endorsed by the prestige and achievements of Cuban medicine, the expertise, warmth and sensitivity of its professionals,” said the prime minister.

“The history of Cuban medicine shows achievements in rigorous, advanced and innovative work methodologies, procedures and medical protocols for human health,” said Marrero Cruz in the opening remarks of the fair, which has the presence of 118 companies from from 40 markets, 68 national companies, hotel chains and micro, medium and small companies (MSMEs).

Marrero Cruz highlighted the collaboration between the Ministries of Health and Tourism and stated that this fair is here to stay. “We have to systematize it with all the potential that Cuba represents to offer and market health tourism at an international level,” said the prime minister, who pointed out that in the midst of the complex times that the country is experiencing, the high level is satisfactory. participation in this fair.

He commented that the meeting has an extensive program of activities, where more than 150 meetings and exchanges, conferences, panels, presentations and negotiation rounds stand out.

“All the health potential, built up over more than 60 years of training and professional practice, together with scientific and biopharmaceutical development and that achieved by our tourism industry in the country, is fully articulated to provide the best service based on heal and offer the highest quality of life. Cuban public health and the experience of our professionals and the tourist locations that the country presents make a perfect combination for health tourism, aimed at raising people’s quality of life”, he said.

Marrero Cruz highlighted the importance of holding both events, both the Fair and the Convention, after having successfully overcome the covid-19 pandemic.

“There was not a moment when we did not think of Fidel, because his design of the Cuban public health system was the one that allowed us to face a totally unknown disease. Precisely that experience of the Cuban health system, which begins with primary care, which is where people’s lives are really saved, with the constant and systematic care of family doctors,” he said.

“Today great efforts are being made by the Ministry of Public Health to consolidate this primary health system. All the family doctor’s offices are being repaired, almost 12,000 throughout the country, ”he specified,

Likewise, he explained that the confrontation with covid-19 has been studied, since there are processes and protocols that were incorporated and are here to stay.

“We defend that the Cuban health system will always be public.

(By: Lisandra Fariñas Acosta e Ismael Francisco)

At the meeting, the Cuban head of government recalled his recent stay in the Indochinese nation, as part of his first tour of Asia as Prime Minister, which contributed to strengthening the historic ties of friendship and cooperation between the two peoples, and allowed identify new trade opportunities.

Marrero Cruz highlighted the signing of fruitful agreements for the production of rice, coffee, corn and aquaculture, which will pay tribute to the island’s food sovereignty, while highlighting the possibilities of cooperation in the field of renewable energies.

For his part, Security General To Lam, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam, thanked the fraternal welcome and reaffirmed the willingness to collaborate in areas of mutual interest.

Likewise, he pondered the visit of the Cuban head of government to his country, which, in his opinion, ratified the relationship of brotherhood and solidarity between Vietnam and Cuba, and made it possible to open new routes of collaboration.

Also present at the meeting were the member of the Political Bureau and Minister of the Interior, Division General Lázaro A. Álvarez Casas; as well as the Vietnamese ambassador to Cuba, Le Thanh Tung, and other members of the visiting delegation.

The also member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba reiterated his condolences for the death of Shinzo Abe, the first acting Japanese president who visited the Caribbean nation and a key figure in the advancement of bilateral ties.

Marrero insisted on the sympathy of the Cuban people for Japan and conveyed the greetings of Army General Raúl Castro and President Miguel Díaz-Canel. At the same time, he thanked the Japanese position of support for the Cuban resolution against the blockade that is presented in the United Nations General Assembly.

He also took the opportunity to thank the Japanese Government for the donation of medical equipment and vehicles for public and communal transportation on the Island, as part of the non-reimbursable financial aid.

At the meeting, Marrero Cruz ratified the willingness to strengthen, expand and diversify bilateral relations.

The Cuban Prime Minister mentioned some of the actions undertaken by the State to recover from the complex economic situation that the country is going through, as a consequence of the blockade imposed by the United States and the impact of the covid-19 pandemic.

For his part, Kishida thanked Marrero for his presence at Abe’s state funeral and stressed that his government will develop the diplomatic legacy inherited from the former prime minister.

Likewise, he lamented the damage caused by Hurricane Ian in Cuban territory and recalled his visit to Havana in 2015, when he exchanged with Commander in Chief Fidel Castro on issues such as the historic friendship that unites both countries, Japanese migration to Cuba and the common position against nuclear weapons.

The meeting with Kishida marked the end of Marrero’s visit to Japan.

The Prime Minister also spoke with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Saito Tetsuo, about opportunities for joint development in the tourism sector, as well as the business opportunities that Cuba offers in this area.

Prime Minister Marrero Cruz begins official visit to Vietnam

Marrero Cruz was received at the Noi Bai International Airport by the Minister and Head of the Government Office, Tran Van Son, and Vice Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc. Photo: PL.

On the second leg of his Asia tour, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz arrived in Hanoi on Wednesday for a three-day official visit to Vietnam.

Marrero Cruz was received at the Noi Bai International Airport by the Minister and Head of the Government Office, Tran Van Son, and Vice Foreign Minister Ha Kim Ngoc.

The Cuban head of government will begin his activities tomorrow by paying tribute to the memory of the hero of Vietnamese independence, President Ho Chi Minh, in the mausoleum erected in Ba Dinh Square, where his remains rest since August 1975, when inaugurated

He will then go to the Presidential Palace, where the welcome ceremony will be held, and then hold official talks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Subsequently, the also member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) will be decorated with the Ho Chi Minh medal, in the last activity scheduled for the morning session.

In the afternoon, he will hold a meeting with the President of the National Assembly (Parliament), Vuong Dinh Hue, and then pay a courtesy visit to the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), Nguyen Phu Trong, before meeting with President from the Asian country, Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

On Friday the 30th, the prime minister and his entourage will participate in a Vietnam-Cuba Business Forum and then will meet with members of the state mission, Cubans residing in Vietnam and representatives of solidarity groups, before traveling to the southern Ho Chi Minh City.

There they will visit the historic Cu Chi tunnels and the High Technology Industrial Park, and will hold a meeting with government and political leaders of the city.

From Ho Chi Minh City, Marrero Cruz will travel to Laos on October 2, the second stage of his tour of Southeast Asia, the first he has carried out in his capacity as head of the Cuban Government. The tour also includes a visit to Cambodia.

Cuba and Vietnam evaluate advances and possibilities in medical and pharmaceutical cooperation

With Vietnamese health authorities, the Cuban minister and the officials accompanying him discussed the current situation of medical cooperation between the two countries. Photo: Taken from @japortalmiranda.

As part of the government visit to Vietnam, the Cuban Minister of Health, José Angel Portal Miranda, addressed the current situation of medical cooperation between the two countries and the implementation of actions in that Asian country in a meeting with officials from the Ministry of Health of the Asian country. ambit.

On Twitter, Portal Miranda reported that “together with representatives of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, doctors graduated in Cuba and businessmen, we then shared an update on cooperation possibilities in health.”

As part of the program, two memorandums of understanding were signed between the representative of the Cuban Medical Services Marketer in Vietnam, Roberto Baños, and Lac Viet Group and Tele Clinic, from the Indochinese country.

According to the Cuban minister, the delegation from the Cuban medical and biopharmaceutical sector toured areas of the Bao Son general hospital and exchanged with the president of the Bao Son Group, the director of the medical institution and several Vietnamese health professionals.

Likewise, he held a meeting with the deputy director of the Cuba-Vietnam Friendship Hospital, where Cuban specialists work.

As part of their agenda, Portal Miranda and the president of BioCubaFarma, Eduardo Martínez Díaz, among other members of the Cuban delegation, evaluated cooperation in the medical-pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry with regulatory authorities and Vietnamese businessmen who market Cuban products, a topic of mutual interest.

(With information from Prensa Latina)

In his speech before the prime ministers and heads of delegations of the member states and observers of the Eurasian Economic Union, the Cuban Head of Government ratified the political will to deepen relations with the nations of the Union. He also stated the intention to achieve an active participation of the Eurasian business community in investment projects, increase and diversify exports of goods and services and implement joint ventures in various sectors. He also highlighted the need for collaboration between these States in the context of complex international circumstances.

Marrero Cruz extended the invitation to the government and business representatives of the countries of the Union to participate in the thirty-eighth International Fair of Havana, which will be held from November 14 to 18.

The Prime Minister thanked, on behalf of the Cuban people and Government, the expressions of solidarity due to the fire that occurred at the Supertanker Base in Matanzas, as well as the permanent support of the Member States of the Union to the Cuban cause for the cessation of economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States government.

This is the fifth session of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in which Cuba participates, after receiving the status of observer State of the Eurasian Economic Union on December 11, 2020.

(With information from Cubaminrex)