Photo: ACNIn the six decades of Cuban medical collaboration abroad, its health personnel have assisted 1.988 billion people in the world, almost a third of mankind, said Dr. Jorge Delgado Bustillo, director of the Central Unit for Medical Cooperation (UCCM).
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The sessions of the First Itinerant Congress of Ophthalmology will conclude in Holguín, on May 17, after its development throughout the country since March, under the auspices of the Cuban Society of this medical specialty and the Ramón Pando Ferrer Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology.
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With the delivery to the province of Holguin of 500, 000 doses of the Cuban vaccine Abdala, the eastern territory extends the booster immunization to populations and groups at risk, as part of the priorities of the public health sector for the control of the COVID-19.
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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel praised today the success of the COVID-19 pediatric immunization program launched in the country in preventing any decease among children and shared the results of a study by the Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute proving that, during the Omicron surge, the vaccine Soberana was 90.1% effective in the 2 to 5 age group and 95.8% in children between the ages of two and eighteen.
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