Public health

The regime "experiments" with the state budget: ambulances and the privatization of public services

The government is preparing 15 new ambulances for hospitals in Havana

Parents search for their son who escaped from the Holguín Psychiatric Hospital

The U.S. wants clearer labeling on food: FDA proposes alerts on fats, sodium, and sugars

Matanzas acknowledges a shortage of doctors, despite claiming total healthcare coverage

Man dies in the hallways of a hospital in Havana

Cárdenas Hospital faces 15 days without an elevator: Orderlies transport patients up the stairs

New virus triggers a health emergency in China: Everything you need to know about HMPV

Health status of the Cubans injured in the Santa Cruz del Sur accident

MINSAP updates on the situation regarding Hepatitis A and other diseases before the year ends

Doctor from Las Tunas resigns after being sanctioned for not prioritizing a friend of the hospital director

The little girl Amanda is recovering "at full speed" and will be able to go out soon

MINSAP confirms an increase in hepatitis A in Cuba

Dengue and Oropouche show no mercy in Cuba: The year ends as it began

Leaks surround the Pediatric Hospital of Centro Habana: "It's always been a mess there."

Cockroaches roam the shelves of a MLC store in Havana: "Fumigation needed urgently."

Infant mortality increases in Villa Clara associated with congenital defects

Cuban woman searches for her grandfather with Alzheimer's who has been missing for nearly three weeks in Havana

Doctor's Day in Cuba: Between Sacrifice and the Crisis of the Health System

Díaz-Canel blames the U.S. for "shortages and difficulties" in the Cuban healthcare system

The ruins of the Teatro Musical de La Habana are an urban dump

Cases of dengue and oropouche are decreasing in Cuba, although the problem persists

Cienfuegos will provide unprocessed milk to children: "It must be boiled to avoid parasites."

Young Cubans share their experiences regarding the effects of "El Químico"

Biden promotes proposal for Medicare and Medicaid to cover weight loss medications

Cuban man erupts over the cost of insurance to bring his mother to the USA: "Don't say it's easier with elderly people."

Cuban seismologists report nearly 5,800 tremors in two weeks following earthquakes near Pilón

Rodobaldo Ramos, "the taxi driver" who cleans and maintains a playground in Isla de la Juventud

Cuban nurse leaves the profession: "You can't live on that."

Health in Cuba on the brink of collapse as Fidel Castro's grandson advocates for the promotion of nanotechnology

The U.S. detects a new variant of monkeypox in a traveler from Congo

Cuban in South Carolina alerts that more than 40 monkeys escaped from a laboratory: "Shut the windows"

Havana after Hurricane Rafael: trash continues to pile up in the streets

A Cuban desperately pleads with the government to collect the trash in Havana

Government denies intoxication in Havana due to alleged sale of expired products

Pharmacies in Matanzas have been without intimate products throughout 2023, and this year they are selling for up to 1,000 pesos per package

Pitcher Pedro Portuondo denounces the conditions of the Children's Hospital in Santiago de Cuba

The moving testimony of a child survivor of the flood in San Antonio del Sur

Cuban denounces negligence at a hospital in Havana: They let my mother die in observation

Cuban woman with dengue symptoms dies after being sent home due to lack of supplies in hospital

The Cuban government sends more doctors and nurses to Dominica

They mourn the passing of the young paramedic Yosmedy García Cobas in Havana

Francisco Durán appears to report on the dengue crisis and the Oropouche virus in Cuba

Matanzas on alert due to increase in dengue and Oropouche cases

Mother reports poor conditions and mistreatment at psychiatric hospital in Camagüey

Parents demand action due to poor conditions in pediatric ward of Santiago de Cuba hospital

Cuban recovering after kidney transplant in Villa Clara

Colonel of MININT dies after being affected by the Oropouche virus

Power outage at Camagüey hospital puts the lives of critically ill patients at risk

Cuban regime insists: "United States denies aid of medications for cancer patients"

Family doctors sanctioned for not intervening in the case of a Cuban child operated on after dipyrone injections

UN representative says that Cuba "continues to be a leader in health issues."

Cuban mother calls on the government for a wheelchair so her five-year-old son can go to school

A Cuban baby undergoes emergency surgery after being injected with dipyrone in Palma Soriano

Indignant Cuban in Mayabeque hospital: "Look at the filth that's inside here."

The MINSAP reports on the sustained increase of dengue and Oropouche virus in Cuba

This is how the hospital built by President Grau San Martín in Pinar del Río looks

The desperate cry for help from a Cuban patient who underwent femur surgery and has bedsores

Cuban woman shows her home invaded by mosquitoes in Havana: "It's inhumane."

Cuban woman recovers after having half a pound of tissue removed from her face