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North American scientists highlighted the capacity of the Cuban anti-Covid-19 model in emergencies

Scientists from the United States today praised Cuba’s ability to develop and vaccinate its population with its own anti-Covid-19 products, a model they suggest following to deal with global health emergencies. In a report published on the site Scidev.net, a city-based specialized in bringing science to development through news and analysis, the authors highlight how this strategy of vaccination with safe and effective immunogens could face situations of this type in environments with resource-poor, low-income countries, and in the developing world.

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Interventional cardiology bets on development: First minimal access percutaneous aortic valve implanted in Cuba

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This time there is no “open heart” surgery. The multidisciplinary team that enters the surgical unit of the Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery (ICCC) around 10:30 am on October 31 knows the steps, has reviewed them with precision. In severe cases of degenerative aortic stenosis—or what is the same, the narrowing of the valve in the large blood vessel that originates from the heart (aorta) and does not allow the valve to open completely.

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Cuba-Health 2022 concludes: World health experts ratify that there is no social development without health

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Participating in the closing ceremony of the event -which began on October 17- was Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, member of the Secretariat and head of the Department of Attention to the Social Sector of the Central Committee of the Party; the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Inés María Chapman Waugh; the Minister of Public Health José Ángel Portal Miranda; ministers and deputy ministers from other nations; directors of the MINSAP; representatives of international organizations.

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Editorial Health Fair will present more than 30 works of Medical Sciences

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More than 30 works of the scientific production of Medical Sciences and other renowned publishers will be presented at the Editorial Health Fair, inaugurated at the Convention Center of Havana as part of the collateral activities that take place in the IV Cuba Health International Convention 2022. The event will bring together the most innovative scientific and health literature that is developed in Cuba, as well as updated research by prestigious authors, both national and foreign.

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Havana is once again the capital of health: Cuba Salud 2022 began

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After the well-deserved tribute to health and science professionals, whose efforts and commitment to life allowed Cuba to successfully overcome the covid-19 pandemic; the master conference “The government management system based on science and innovation and its implications for health”, given by Dr. C. Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic, inaugurated this afternoon the largest event organized by Cuban public health: the Cuba-Health International Convention 2022.

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Opens its doors XV Health for All Trade Fair and I International Fair of Medical Tourism and Well-being

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With the opening of the XV Health for All Trade Fair, this October 17 at the Pabexpo site in the Cuban capital, an opportune space was opened to evaluate the current and future challenges of Public Health in the world and continue strengthening commercial ties that contribute to the development of nations. Just 39 years after the first of these fairs was held, an initiative of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, this exhibition and commercial forum was inaugurated as part of the Cuba Salud 2022 Convention

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Cuba prioritizes its epidemiological situation

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Cuba as a whole has been working for a little over a week to erase the traces left by Hurricane Ian in various provinces of the country. Enormous efforts have demanded that purpose on the part of the Cuban Government and its leaders, which has not prevented continuing to give priority to the epidemiological scenario of the nation. Along this path, this Tuesday afternoon two exchanges were held between the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

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Cuban biopharmaceutical industry will receive credit of 46.7 million euros

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The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Cuba will process a financing of 46.7 million euros with the aim of strengthening the country’s biopharmaceutical industry, the entity reported this Friday in a statement. The loan, signed by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), is intended for a project to improve the national response capacity against diseases such as Covid-19.The execution of the budget contemplates the reinforcement of the infrastructure for the production of injectable antibiotics, parenteral solutions.

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Epidemiological situation continues to be marked by dengue

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Dengue continues to be the most complex hygienic-sanitary situation that we have today in the country, it was reiterated at this Wednesday’s meeting of the Government’s temporary working group for the prevention and control of covid-19. The exchange was led by the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the prime minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, a member of the Political Bureau. The head of the Ministry of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, reported that there is dengue transmission in the 15 provinces and the Isle of Youth.

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MINSAP reports on the second case of Monkeypox in the country

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Informamos a nuestra población que hoy se confirmó el segundo caso de Viruela Símica diagnosticado en el territorio nacional, el cual no guarda relación con el caso anterior. Se trata de un ciudadano cubano, residente en Estados Unidos, de 60 años de edad, masculino, que arriba a Cuba el día 26 de agosto de 2022 por el aeropuerto internacional José Martí de La Habana, procedente de Miami, Estados Unidos. Durante el Control Sanitario Internacional en frontera no declaró problema de salud.