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Cuba Adopts Measures to Prevent Zika and Other Diseases

The Public Health Ministry informed that Cuba adopts measures to prevent the introduction of the Zika virus disease, which, according to reports by the World Health Organization (WHO,) currently affects about twenty countries.

The absence of Zika in Cuba cannot lead to lack of worry

The absence so far of a single Zika virus case in Cuba cannot lead to lack of worry, particularly after the heavy rains that affected the island in recent weeks, which favor the spread of the mosquito that carries the disease.

Almost 400 liver transplants in Cuba in 29 years

Cuba has carried out nearly 400 liver transplants since it began this complex proceeding on January 26, 1986, to date, at Hermanos Ameijeiras Surgical Hospital (HHA by its Spanish acronym) in this city.

Cuban Health Minister urges better services in the family doctors offices

Cuban Health Minister Roberto Morales Ojeda said on Sunday in Havana that they are looking for ways for the over 10 thousand 500 family doctors’ offices in the country to contribute in improving the services to the population.

Havana in 2015: scenery of achievements in health care that leak out into the world

The 2015 was a year of achievements on the subject of public health in Havana, and from this proper scenery, the most relevant of the undertaking of the sector in all programs of national system of health have been known all over the world.