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Health

Cuban Medical Brigade Returns Home from Chile

The Cuban medical brigade that worked in Chile following the heavy rains that hit the northern area of Atacama in April returned home on the night of June 10.

Cuban health tourism center expands services

The Havana-based Cira Garcia health center, offering services to foreigners, is expanding services to compete with other similar centers in The Americas.

Cuban Physicians to Travel to Nepal to help Earthquake Victims

The Health Minister of Nepal, Khem Karki, announced the creation of a mobile hospital where Cuban physicians will work, due to the hospital emergency left by the earthquake, as informed by TeleSUR special correspondent Aissa Garcia.

Cuba: Second Stage of Anti-polio Vaccination Campaign on Monday

The second stage of the 54th National Anti-polio Vaccination Campaign will run throughout Cuba from April 27 to May 3, as announced by Dr. Francisco Durán, National Director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health.

Life experience of Cubans struggling against Ebola: Potó, good friend(I)

Young José Luis Sánchez Pérez is one of the Havana health worker who faced the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leona, where- as the colaborator himself says –an important but atypical mission was accomplished. Many lives had to be saved, with endless love for the fellow people, but without kisses or hugs.