The Cuban Association of People with Physical-Motor Disabilities (ACLIFIM), with more than 7,000 members in the province of Holguin, is promoting investments in a program to eliminate architectural barriers as part of the implementation of social protection programs.
The Mountain Research Station of Mayarí (EIIM) has included two projects in the Territorial Program for Sustainable Development of the Mountains in the northeastern province of Holguín.
Dr. Luis Velázquez has directed one of the most humane projects promoted by the Public Health system in recent years: advancing in the search for new therapeutic targets to treat Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 (SCA2), a hereditary and progressive disease of high prevalence in Cuba and mainly in the province of Holguín, whose prevalence and incidence rates have not been surpassed by any other country.
The University of Holguín (UHo) promotes the development of distance classes based on the existing computer infrastructure to reinforce the teaching-learning process in the midst of the current epidemiological situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.