The Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology of Holguin will promote greater vector control in 2025 among the measures aimed at preventing dengue and other pathologies transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
In 2024, the year of its 40th anniversary, the Family Doctor and Nurse Program in the province of Holguín worked to improve the Family Medicine project underway in the country, with the purpose of raising the quality of medical care and bring services closer to the population.
The province of Holguín, with the largest maternity hospital in Cuba at the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Hospital, closed the year 2024 with an infant mortality rate of 5.31 per thousand live births, a figure that places this indicator among the lowest in the country.
Topics related to the therapeutic modalities of Natural and Traditional Medicine (MNT) approved in Cuba and research developed to contribute to raising the quality of life of the population, occupied the attention of professionals attending the IX Scientific Conference of the Chapter of Bioenergetic and Natural Medicine, held on Wednesday in the city of Holguín.