The Vice President of the Pan American Federation of Critical Medicine and Intensive Care, Dr. Agamenon Quintero said on Thursday in Havana that Cuba has excellent experience and is a reference in Latin America and the rest of the world in the attention of disaster victims.
Cuba will send an emergency medical brigade to Peru after heavy rains have affected different areas of that nation over the past few weeks.
The National Center for Minimal Access Surgery (CNCMA by its Spanish acronym) first in Cuba of this branch of medicine, made more than 4,500 such surgical procedures in 2016, with very good results, announced the director of that institution.
The Clinical Research Director at the Havana-based Molecular Immunology Center, Doctor Tania Crombet, said in eastern Holguin city that Cuban cancer vaccines can now be administered in the primary health care services.
A few of those walking around that zone of Vedado, in Havana, take notice of the house, yellow and white, located just on the corner of 17 and D Streets, where hundreds of persons meet daily.