A multidisciplinary team from the Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja Pediatric Hospital in the province of Holguín today successfully extracted a pencil cap from the right bronchus of a 12-year-old adolescent.

The Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba (ELAM) and the Medicine major received the international accreditation granted by the Council for International Evaluation and Accreditation (ICAAE), the Ministry of Public Health confirmed on Wednesday.

In the new facilities of the new Nephrology Service at the Lucía Íñiguez hospital of Holguín, specialists began to install catheters for hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis base on the conditions of the premise, which improves the quality of invasive procedures in patients with advanced kidney disease.

The medical emergency transportation service in the province of Holguín has been affected by the shortage of vehicle parts and pieces.This scenario will improve in the current year 2024 with the arrival of nine ambulances to the territory.