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Hundreds Cuban collaborators are currently working in Timor Leste Timorese Foreign Minister to Cuba.

It was created more than thirty years ago by the Master’s Degree in Psychology Georgina Fariñas, under the tutelage and supervision of late Dr Bernabé Ordaz, founding director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Havana (HPH) and prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, director of the National Ballet of Cuba (BNC).

According to Prensa Latina news agency, the country has assigned considerable resources to the purchase of new equipment and spare parts.

The eastern province of Holguin has reached the lowest infant mortality rate in its history in the current year with a rate of 1.9 per thousand live births, which rank the province one of the first in the country.

Some 300, 000 people have reseived surgical intervention in the Center of Eye Microsurgery, belonging to the specialized hospital Ramón Pando Ferrer, in Havana City, during its last 20 years.

Cuban ophthalmologists have treated more than 94.000 Paraguayans since October 2005, the head of the Cuban ophthalmological brigade in this South American country, Pablo Leon Cabrera, announced on Thursday.

The endokeratoplasty technique for corneal transplant, a complex surgery that has been successfully carried out on twelve people who suffered from serious corneal dystrophies

There are several institutions of special interest within the prestigious Cuban medicine sector, the International Neurological Restoration Center, CIREN is one of them.

Specialized medical services for Cuban elderly people are part of a nationwide strategy aimed at improving their quality of life. That policy benefits 231 centenarians who live in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.

Dominicans that are not in critical conditions or an emergency situation will have to wait until Friday to be assisted, because doctors are on their fourth strike this year, stopping public hospitals.

Doctor Carlos Lima, who is in front of this group, explained that they apply the attendance to people that suffer of retinitis and they stay in the Center every six months, as well as to other external ones affected by glaucoma with atrophy optics, degenerations maculates or queratopatías, to mention some.

About 3,000 Cubans have been benefited in 2007 through the interventionist cardiology, a minimum-access technique to treat heart afflictions, with 97 percent of high effectiveness.

The successful use of the specific immunoglobulin antimeningococic (IGAM) in Cuba has allowed saving many children and adults, stated Doctor of Sciences Gustavo Sierra, Vice President of Finlay Institute.

A survey on the unhealthy cuban diet published by a noted magazine doctor. A call to the personnel of Cuba health to contribute to change the habits when eating of the Cuban. This article has been included due to its importance for the public in general

Carlos Lage, secretary of the Executive Committee of the Cuban Council of Ministers, took part in the inauguration of the Raúl Suárez Martínez University Polyclinic, a large, modern facility in the municipality of Rodas, province of Cienfuegos.