Holguín closed 2023 with the third lowest infant mortality rate in the country, achieving 4.7 per thousand live births, according to preliminary data.
For the first time in Cuba and successfully, Heberprot-P, a national growth factor, was applied to a pediatric patient prior to a skin transplant in the central province of Sancti Spíritus.
Of the almost hundred works included in the investment and maintenance plan of the Health sector in 2023, 57 have already been completed, 13 are about to be concluded by the end of December and 24 will continue in 2024.
This year’s celebration of the World HIV Response Day on December 1, is calling for urgent support to Let Communities Lead in the fight to end AIDS.
The neonatology services of the maternity hospitals in the municipalities of Moa, Mayarí, Banes and Holguín received INFANTIX equipment from CNEURO for the screening and diagnosis of hearing and visual loss in the child population, through the MediCuba-Switzerland cooperation.