Public health

Cuban doctor validates her degree in Brazil and her reaction goes viral: "I passed, my love, I passed!"

Garbage mafias in Cuba? Testimonies point to clans, violence, and an organized business in the landfills

From public service to private business: a small and medium-sized enterprise will charge 100 CUP for garbage collection in Isla de la Juventud

What was left after "picking up" the trash in San Miguel del Padrón

Garbage takes over Las Tunas and forces the search for solutions in the private sector

Santiago hospital receives donation of medical supplies from Chile

Garbage blocks a street in Holguín and threatens food stalls

Guantánamo receives 20 electric cars to transport dialysis patients

Guantánamo reports an increase in Aedes aegypti and highlights shortcomings in the detection of fever cases

In the midst of a health crisis, Santiago de Cuba receives 10 electric taxis for dialysis patients

Díaz-Canel acknowledges the magnitude of the healthcare disaster in Cuba: seven out of ten medications are missing

"The future for me is uncertain": Cubans survive without making plans

The crisis in Cuba takes a toll on mental health: the exhaustion of "sorting things out" every day

Villa Clara Health assures that it has blood available for emergencies "despite the emergence of requests on social media."

In photos: Rivers and bay of Matanzas overflowing with garbage

Old Havana can't stay clean for even two hours due to the lack of waste management

Public Health warns about the risks of a trendy drink among young Cubans

Alcohol, psychotropic drugs, and violence: the crisis impacting young people and raising public health alarms in a community in Cumanayagua, Cienfuegos

Teen pregnancy soars in Las Tunas despite prevention campaigns

Trash overflows in Trillo Park in Central Havana, and residents are outraged: “With the stench and the worms, where are we going to end up?”

Nurse sets a chair on fire to kill bedbugs in hospital in Santiago de Cuba

Urgent in Santa Clara: 9-year-old girl needs dialyzers to continue her hemodialysis

The reopening of the Bucky Dent water park in Hialeah was short-lived: Why has the closure been decreed?

A man was found unconscious in Santa Marta: The clinic had no way to measure his blood sugar

The outbreak of cyclosporiasis in the United States worsens: What do we know?

Woman arrested in Miami for offering Botox treatments without a license: How was she discovered?

The first deaths from cyclosporiasis have been reported in the United States

Reports indicate an increase in leprosy cases in Florida

Florida Department of Health confirms dengue case in Miami-Dade

13-year-old girl urgently needs a medication that is not available at the Camagüey hospital

"They're in my yard and reach the door": alarm grows in Matanzas over the African giant snail

Cuban without resources takes in an elderly woman who was wandering lost: "I can't take care of her and the government is not acting."

"It doesn't show": Cubans reject official report on funding for social programs

The Public Health Office of Mayarí denies the existence of the malnourished psychiatric patient reported on social media

Investigation into the intrusion of a group of individuals in the intensive care unit of a pediatric hospital in Havana

Cuba sets the basic salary for a newly graduated doctor at 7.045 CUP, equivalent to about 14 dollars a month

This is how the salaries of doctors and health workers in Cuba stand after the new resolution

Cyclosporiasis outbreak frightens consumers in the U.S.: Restaurants lose customers and lettuce sales decline

"If Eusebio Leal were to rise again, he would die once more," lament Cuban citizens as trash devours the historian's work in Old Havana

A bicycle is gifted to an Intensive Care Unit head, and social media erupts: "Is he going to ride all over Havana after a shift?"

Guantánamo reports 23 suspected cases of dengue, and two municipalities remain under epidemiological alert

Popular allergy medication recalled in the U.S. after potential cross-contamination detected

Sanctioned and hacked, the Minister of Health of Cuba

"It seemed like a horror movie": reports emerge about the state of the clinic in Güira de Melena lacking medications and conditions to care for patients

Cyclosporiasis outbreak expands in the U.S.: These are the states with new cases

Manuel Calviño demands control over street vendors: "They shouldn't have to start at six in the morning."

The CDR monitors the streets... but not the mountain of garbage that burns next to its headquarters in Vedado

The noise echoes in Sancti Spíritus amid horns, engines, and music at full volume

The collapse of Monte Street in the Cuban capital: the corner of El Cadete today smells of neglect and garbage

Cycsporiasis cases triple in Miami-Dade in one week

Possible source of the cyclospora outbreak affecting Florida and about thirty states in the U.S. identified.

They are asking for help for a Cuban mother and her son with a disability and a life expectancy of one year

"Neither Afghanistan nor Ukraine": one of the main access roads to Holguín resembles a war zone due to a burning garbage dump

Outbreak of cyclosporiasis reaches dozens of cases in Florida: What it is, how it spreads, and how to protect yourself

Havana falls back three centuries: bags filled with excrement and garbage revive the unsanitary conditions of the colonial era

There are no condoms available in pharmacies in Cuba, but the official press talks about family planning consultations

This is the state of the bathrooms at the Juan Bruno Zayas hospital in Santiago de Cuba

Official press blames the U.S. for the lack of supplies for cancer patients

Regime admits that health indicators have fallen to alarming levels: More than 100,000 people are awaiting surgery

"The Never-Ending Story": the regime insists on its "social policies" while Cuba fades away