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Qatar Interested in Expanding Medical Cooperation with Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, March 10 (acn) The government of Qatar acknowledged the prestige of the Cuban hospital of Dukhan and showed interest in expanding Cuba’s medical cooperation, in addition to exploring investment opportunities on the island, said on Monday a diplomatic source.

Wings for life: a Project of Hope

Having breast cancer does not mean a death sentence when you go to the doctor early to detect it, much less in Cuba where health services are completely free and every day results of research works for new drugs and vaccines are expanded and actions in this regard are put into practice in communities.

Personalities and Ministers to Attend Havana’s Intl. Health Convention

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 12 (acn) Over 100 personalities and about 20 health ministers have confirmed their attendance to the International Health Convention that will take place in this capital on April 20-24.

Why do pregnant women not die?

Since three successive years, in the municipality of Havana Center not maternal death has been reported during childbirth, due mainly to the special attention received by pregnant women in a territory that in 2014 achieved the second lowest infantile death rate in the province: 1,7 for every thousand born alive.

Mission Milagro (Miracle): Light for the Low Vision People (I)

In July, 2004 Mission Milagro begins in Cuba, a project created to prevent blindness due to pathologies causing them, among which the cataract is the most frequent. With this noble mission, name suggested by Fidel, light started to irradiate through the surgeries initiated in the Island, just in front of the eyes of many people […]