Special Reports


This Wednesday, 48 hours after receiving the first dose of Abdala, the adolescents between 12 and 18 years old participating in the phase II of the Ismaelillo study returned to the vaccinations. There they measured their temperature, their blood pressure and told how they felt after the immunization. So rigorous is the clinical trial that evaluates the safety and immunogenicity of this Cuban vaccine in the pediatric population.

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The antecedents of a representative health institution in Camagüey and Cuba, such as the María Curie teaching cancer hospital, date back to 1941. At that time, the will of the League Against Cancer to overcome the disease was real. However, the support of neocolonial governments was null.

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When the first cases of COVID-19 in the country were confirmed in March 2020, Camagüey Health personnel, already on the front line, put on gloves and masks to combat the novel disease.

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 Create and walk despite the blockade

Giving the possibility of walking to a girl who was denied it by a congenital malformation has been one of the greatest satisfactions that Elvin Zamora Mustelier remembers from his work.

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Pneumonia in children, avoidable disease

Pneumonia is the acute inflammatory process of the lung parenchyma (tissue responsible for gas exchange), of infectious cause and evidenced by clinical manifestations depending on the age and nutritional status of the child. It is a condition that can be avoided and that its incidence has decreased thanks to the hygienic measures applied to prevent COVID-19.


Helping does not require experience

Every day students from the Carlos J. Finlay University of Medical Sciences in Camagüey knock on our doors to ask and worry about our health. But they are not the only students in that branch who stay up to take care of us after the outbreak of COVID-19. Laboratories, statistics departments and isolation centers are also scenarios in which their learning work impacts from the utility.


Cuba will present again to the UN the traditional report that demands the need to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against our people. Yes, because sometimes words disguise the true semantics of the linguistic field of life. Because that first world-wide and powerful asphyxia that we denounce as a country every year in each tribune on any date, we suffer it as children, as parents, as grandparents, as neighbors, as acquaintances, as a people.


Coronavirus and hurricanes, something to remember

The search for answers to the unknown has allowed humanity to climb ever higher but also more complex levels of life, where science and technology constitute decisive factors of progress without which we cannot conceive human survival today.


Cuba: the second homeland

The Chinese presence in our country transcends the borders of the well-known “Made in ...” that we find on clothing labels or on the seal of an electrical appliance. On June 3, 1847, the first inhabitants of the land of Confucius disembarked, who set sail on the Oquendo ship, from the port of Amoy. They were looking for progress, but they only discovered the fate of African slaves. However, they knew how to defend the Cuban ensign, when the moment came for the clarion call.