Health in Cuba

Katungo: "The true revolution will be the one that restores joy and the right to dream to children."

Specialist warns about the risk to hematological and immunological patients due to the increase in arboviral diseases

Tick found in cheese? Allegations of poor hygiene in the transportation and sale of food in Havana

85-year-old woman hospitalized in Camagüey: “I spend the night awake because of the bedbugs.”

Nine months of neglect for kidney patients in Villa Clara, while authorities continue to remain unresponsive

No nurse to administer an injection: lack of care for sick children reported at the Pediatric Hospital in Matanzas

Abel Prieto admits that Cuba is experiencing "the most difficult moment of the revolution" and insults the U.S. government.

The Cuban government admits to more than 70 daily deaths from cancer and blames the embargo for the shortage of medications

CBS News documents from Havana the collapse of the healthcare and electricity systems: doctors without medicine and power outages lasting nearly all day

Until when? Accumulated garbage reported next to residential buildings in Holguín

Osmani García reveals that he was unable to go to Cuba to bury his cousin, who passed away after a cesarean section at Ameijeiras

Giant dump reported in Luyanó: More than four months without being cleaned up

The regime's diplomat confirms contacts with the U.S., but dismisses any progress towards serious dialogue

The number of fever cases is rising in Matanzas: five municipalities account for the highest number of affected individuals

More than 20 adolescents hospitalized for poisoning at a high school in Contramaestre

Electrical overload causes fire in the hemodialysis room at the Bayamo hospital

Cárdenas Hospital without electricity: reports of transfer of intensive care patients to Matanzas

Cuban doctor: "I had to make one of the most difficult and ironic decisions of my life: to give up practicing medicine."

Denial of collapse at the pediatric hospital in Matanzas: "We are not in a moment of epidemic."

Update on the condition of the injured in the Manzanillo fire: they remain critical and serious, but both are stable

Filmmaker Juan Carlos Cremata: "In Cuba, they don’t care about the living, just imagine the dead."

Health crisis: Illegal gold mining in Las Tunas may be causing diseases related to mercury poisoning

Matanzas receives a "first-world" ambulance donated by the government of St. Petersburg

Family of man who died in Santiago de Cuba hospital reports medical negligence

In the midst of a long hospitalization, a family from Havana finds unexpected help in a private café

Medicines are seized in Havana, and Cubans are asking, "So where do we buy them now?"

Authorities seize speakers from bike taxi drivers in Havana, sparking debate: "And what about the thieves?"

Solidarity networks distribute free medicines in Havana in response to the shortage

"We are drinking mud," a Cuban warns about the water they receive and advises boiling it before consumption

Cloudy water and diarrheal diseases raise alarms in Santiago de Cuba

Images from a dental clinic in Camagüey raise questions about healthcare conditions

Cubana: "Where will life go that is consumed in accounts that never balance?"

Cuban woman at the dumps in Havana: "Walking through all of Cuba right now is feeling disgust."

Three municipalities complicate the epidemiological situation in Las Tunas, and the fumigation is progressing with limitations

"Private practice of medicine is not allowed": Public Health of Cuba responds to controversy in Camagüey

The lack of condoms exacerbates teenage pregnancy in Cuba

Cuban pediatrician warns of more hepatitis and diarrhea in children: "If you don’t have safe water..."

Investigation on corruption in Cuban health wins the Roche 2026 Award for Written Journalism

Dengue soars in Cuba: over 11,000 cases in 2026, nine times what was expected, while the regime remains silent

Medical team from Pinar del Río saves the life of a young woman with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy in an emergency operation from Mantua

Consultations for $30 and check-ups for $105 in Camagüey: the business claims the ad was "a test."

Former world boxing champion Bernardo Comas lives with senile dementia under the care of his mother in a house with leaks in Camagüey

Baby Lores to her sick mother in Cuba: "I will do everything in my power to hug you."

Díaz-Canel acknowledges the shortage of medicines in Cuba and again blames the U.S. embargo.

"I live with the threat of becoming partially blind": Ulises Toirac's confession

They report a garbage dump in Matanzas: "How far are we going to go?"

Creator of the Trofin to Cuban leaders: "Your opportunity has run out; do not prolong the suffering of the people any longer."

Bishop and clergy of the Episcopal Church of Cuba break the silence: they denounce hunger, blackouts, and express support for Ana Bensi in a letter to the Cuban people

Real or AI? Images of a man covered in mosquitoes in Batabanó raise doubts and alarm

Russia donates three ambulances and a Lada to medical centers in Havana

Foundation of the Netherlands sends 11 containers to alleviate shortages in health and education in Holguín

Professor Julián Pérez Amarillo, distinguished Cuban microbiologist, has passed away

Where was the SIUM? Eight hours waiting for an ambulance, and an elderly person died after arriving at the hospital in Isla de la Juventud

Santiago de Cuba Hospital boasts of its "resilience" while cooking with firewood for its patients

Cuban medical mission evaluates whether doctors should bring cash to Havana due to frozen funds in Italy

Alert in Matanzas due to increase in respiratory illnesses

Authorities report two deaths due to nitrite poisoning in Holguín; one person in critical condition

Former Italian deputy Alessandro Di Battista reveals the reason for his hospitalization in Cuba and shares how he underwent surgery

Cuba: the tragedy of Aniari Barrientos and the collapse of the healthcare system

Firefighters prevent sterilization equipment from catching fire at the América Arias Maternal Hospital