The U.S. economic blockade against Cuba is criminal because it hinders access to life-saving medicines and resources, denounced Mayelin Jimenez, mother of an eight-year-old boy with cancer.
The joint venture was created between the commercial subsidiaries of two renowned research centers: Cuba’s Molecular Immunology Center and the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center of the United States.
Although oral cancer is not the one that most affects the holguinera population, stomatologists are concerned about the increase in diagnosis of the disease in stages three and four.
The damages to the production of homeopathic medicines stand out among the effects of the economic and commercial blockade of the United States against Cuba in the health system in the province of Holguin.
The Mother and Child Care Program (PAMI) in the province of Holguin, maintains the infant mortality rate at zero in five municipalities, which is one of the main achievements of the sector so far this year.