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.

In the opening remarks of the exhibition event, Dr. Jorge González Pérez, general director of Medical Teaching of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), maintained that it is of vital importance that health professionals have the necessary tools to face the current world reality, in order to reaffirm the need to improve the health of the population as a determinant of social development.

“Information and knowledge management, the efficient use of information technologies and resources, constitute key elements, and cannot be seen in isolation, but rather as part of this process of evaluating and renewing strategies for organization and policies on health issues,” he said.

Dr. Jorge González Pérez, general director of Medical Teaching of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap), argued that it is vitally important that health professionals have the necessary tools for their training. Photo: Cubadebate.

The Cuba-Health 2022 International Convention has, as its main purposes, to promote reflection and exchange about the current and future challenges of health at a global level, emphasizing the actions of the countries in the face of the needs that the world faces today, in aspects such as the safety and quality of medical care, emerging and re-emerging diseases, efficient and sustainable health systems, international cooperation in health, which includes medical education, as well as evaluating access and universal health coverage, Gonzalez Perez said.

He said that several scientific publishers, companies, societies and institutions linked to health participate in the Editorial Fair, which will have the opportunity to exhibit their scientific production, information resources or products that they represent, in the field of medicine and health sciences. general health.

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)

The documents were signed by PAHO Director Dr. Carissa Etienne, and Cuban Minister of Public Health Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, a vice president of the Council of State.

The Regional Revolving Fund for Strategic Public Health Supplies offers a mechanism for pooled procurement of essential medicines and supplies.

Today its purchasing volume today exceeds one hundred million, allowing for the procurement of more than 150 products to treat diseases such as malaria, HIV, tuberculosis and cardiovascular diseases. Nations can also access technical cooperation to strengthen their planning, procurement and management capacities.

Meanwhile, the Regional Revolving Fund for Vaccine Procurement is a cooperation mechanism for the joint procurement of vaccines, syringes and related supplies, helps to achieve 93% coverage for diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough in the region, PAHO representative to Cuba, Cristian Morales Fuhrimann, stated.

He explained that the purchasing power of the mechanism amounts to 800 million dollars, of which 120 are available for 60-day credits for member countries.

According to Morales, the next challenge for Cuba and other countries in the region in this regard is to join the 31 producers from whom the Fund purchases 46 vaccines and 29 cold chain products and syringes.

(Granma)