Pediatric healthcare is a priority, say Cuban authorities Pediatric healthcare is a priority, say Cuban authorities
Havana, May 11 (Prensa Latina) In Cuba, children s health is a priority despite the obstacles imposed by the US blockade against the country almost 60 years ago, health authorities highlighted on Tuesday. Nothing is more important for Cuba than the life of a child, Health Minister Jose Angel Portal assured on Tuesday on Twitter.
The minister indicated that despite the blockade, minors in serious condition, regardless of their illness, have a whole chain of surveillance and care.
Recently, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reiterated the damage caused by that policy of the US government to the health of the Cuban people since it prevents the acquisition of technologies, raw materials, reagents, diagnostic means, medicines, devices, equipment and spare parts necessary for medical care.
Final details of anti-Covid-19 health intervention in Havana
Final details of anti-Covid-19 health intervention in Havana
Havana, May 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuban authorities, scientists and health personnel are arranging on Monday the final details for the health intervention study for at-risk groups, with anti-Covid-19 vaccine candidate Abdala, which will begin on Wednesday, in Havana.
The Entrepreneurial Group of the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries of Cuba (BioCubafarma) stated on Twitter that the doses of Abdala vaccine are ready to be administrated to volunteers in San Miguel del Padron, Habana del Este, Guanabacoa and Regla municipalities, as of Wednesday, May 12.
As Health Minister Jose Angel Portal recently explained, 396,382 inhabitants of those municipalities will receive the doses during the first half of May until June.
Cuba s preparation avoids collapse of health system
Cuba s preparation avoids collapse of health system
9 de abril de 2021, 9:3Havana, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) Cuba currently presents a complex epidemiological situation, but the preparation prior to the Covid-19 pandemic made possible to avoid the collapse of the health system in the face of the third outbreak, authorities said. We have a reserve of beds, 23 Molecular Biology laboratories to carry out PCR tests in real time and we can assimilate the new cases in our health facilities, the health centers have not collapsed, Health Minister Jose Angel Portal said.
It is necessary not to lose the perception of risk, and we are obliged to reduce Covid-19 cases in Cuba, given the high figures, because otherwise, such a situation would spoil the efforts made in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Portal pointed out.