2023-12-03 18:28:56
Middle East Summary, December 3, 2023.
Workers in the health sector in Cuba celebrate this Sunday the Day of Latin American Medicine, trained with the highest quality, high ethical, revolutionary, humanistic values, with altruism and solidarity inside and outside the country.
Since December 3, 1933, each new anniversary of the birth of Carlos J. Finlay and Latin American Medicine Day have been celebrated annually.
For Cuba, the date becomes a milestone in health matters for the benefit of the population and peoples of other lands, and a departure to assume new commitments and challenges in the difficult task of maintaining high public health indicators, even in the midst of the imposed limitations. due to the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States.
Also in the advancement of programs and projects that respond to epidemiological emergencies and in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, the reduction of infant and maternal mortality, and the fight once morest communicable infectious diseases.
Still latent are the experiences of combating Covid-19, generated by the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus, which caused 1,115,169 patients diagnosed with the disease and 8,530 deaths, once morest which Cuban professionals and scientists created five vaccine candidates, three of them very effective.
The director of Science and Technological Innovation of the Ministry of Public Health, Ileana Morales, recently highlighted that the indicators of sensitive programs speak of sustained work by professionals in the national health system.
This is also demonstrated by the presence, from 1963 to the present, of 407 thousand workers in that sector in 164 countries on all continents. Currently there are more than 28 thousand collaborators in 58 nations.
Latin American Medicine Day is celebrated every December 3, a day that commemorates the birth of Dr. Carlos J. Finlay, who discovered and described the importance of the biological vector in the transmission of diseases by biological agents, applying it to yellow fever. transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
Finlay’s work also transcended for its contribution to the understanding of the behavior of epidemics, which have plagued humanity since ancient times.
It was a clear example of perseverance and dedication to the medical profession and how science, focused on health, produces significant advances in the protection of the most precious thing in human beings: life.
Source: Cuba in Summary
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