Senior officials from the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) are arriving in Havana on Sunday to attend a special Summit on how to confront the Ebola epidemic.»
The meeting will define joint contribution to this health challenge and to prevent the dissemination of the disease in the Latin America and Caribbean region.»
The president of the World Veterinary Association (WVA), Faouzi Kedrich, said he was honoured to participate in the Pan-American Congress of that science, PANVET 2014, with venue in Havana.»
An article published in The Washington Post highlighted the importance of Cuban medical help to African countries hit by Ebola virus in the wake of arrival of 165 Cuban professionals to Freetown, Sierra Leone.»
The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro praised the Cuban doctors and nurses who traveled to Sierra Leone to combat the epidemic of Ebola and invited doctors from countries with more resources to join this effort.»
Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz bid farewell last night to 165 health professionals headed for Sierra Leone as part of the global fight against Ebola, the Granma newspaper reported today. At the stairway to the plane, General Raul Castro clasped the hands of each of the members of the Cuban medical team as they left to perform their sworn duty »
The XXV International Congress of Orthopedics and Traumatology closed this Saturday, in Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus, with confirmation of the steps to modernize Cuba orthopedic components. The initiative is going to refinement, modernity in orthopedics and to turn Cuba into continental leader in the coming years, stated Dr. Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras, president of the Cuban Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology.»
Brazilian researchers released some 10,000 mosquitoes in the city of Rio de Janeiro to fight the deadly dengue fever in the country.»
Criteria around the challenges and achievements of the spinal surgery treatment were the focus of discussions among specialists who attended the first pre-congress course carried out this Tuesday morning at Ancon Hotel, in Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus. Dr. Horacio Tabares Neyra’s presentation on lumbar spondylosis was one of the attractions of the first theoretical session. This disease is an age-related continuous »
Cuba reduced by over 78 percent the relative risk of amputation due to diabetic foot ulcers, thanks to a comprehensive program of care for these patients that includes the use of the drug Heberprot-P.»
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