More than one million 660 thousand pesos will be invested by the Cuban State in the Vladimir Ilich Lenin University Hospital during 2018, to follow up on the repair and maintenance plan in the main areas of the health institution, with more than six decades in operation.

Cuba will increase the export of health services to Algeria, said today the two governments at the end of official talks that envisaged the increase of bilateral economic and trade ties.

The province of Holguin is working along with the Public Health Ministry (Minsap), to resume the liver transplant surgery in the second semester of this year, as a strategy to benefit a greater number of patients required of treatment in the eastern region of Cuba.

Cuba is among the first 19 countries in the world with the lowest infant mortality rate with 4.0 for every one thousand live births in 2017. This is the 10th consecutive year that the infant mortality has been under five, reported during the opening of the 28th Cuban Pediatrician Congress.