The Nursing service of Sancti Spiritus Hospital Surgical Unit is as anonymous as essential in all the operations performed in the facility. In every room, including those of maternity, they assume multiple procedures.»
The General Director of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, and the director of the Pan American Health Organization, Mirta Roses, will meet with the Cuban Minister for Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez.»
Although the greater number of health professionals in the Cuban central province of Sancti Spiritus are currently working in international missions in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, their echoes reach also the distant Africa.»
Cuban scientists are carrying out a clinic trial to verify the efficacy of a vaccine against allergy, which is administered against bronchial asthma, which has a high incidence in the country.»
The Cuban Molecular Immunology Center fulfilled last year’s annual export plan, and it currently maintains the progressive administration of a therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer.»
Over a hundred health institutions were renovated or repaired in 2011 in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus. In addition, several hospital wards and services were reopened. According to local health sources, investment funds were mostly allocated for secondary care facilities.»
Cuba registered an infant mortality rate of 4.9 per 1000 live births in 2011, holding alongside Canada the lowest rate in the Americas. An article published by Granma today also appointed the eastern Cuban province of Las Tunas with the lowest mortality rate of the island, with 3.5 per 1000 live births.»
Since the beginning of the year, when the process of reorganizing began in Sancti Spiritus, more than 800 health services have been given order to in the Cuban central province. Thus, medical care has reached communities in a more appropriate way.»
For almost two decades, surgeons are being trained at Camilo Cienfuegos Hospital in Sancti Spiritus, but for the first time specialists from the Latin American School of Medicine graduate here. »
By Dayamis Sotolongo Rojas Even if a program for organs transplant and donation is already established in Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba, only kidney and cornea donations are made in the province, the latter being less frequent, carrying out only three as for 2011, which have benefitted four patients.»
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