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• 10 / 11 / 2008

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An wire from the Cuban News Agency points out that Doctor Luis Estruch, vice minister of Health, stated that more than 80, 000 doctors, technicians and specialists are inserted in the hygienic epidemic system, together with social organizations and other ministries.

The Vice Minister highlighted thart in the epidemic stability work four institutes of investigations, specialized laboratories in all the provinces, system of sanitary control in ports and airports, as well as a big net of assistance institutions that reaches the community clinics.

Estruch specified that the prevention and promotion of health is the objective of the structured work in more than half hundred of programs in Cuba, and 13 deals with transmissible pathologies, others with chronic illnesses.  

The specialist stood out the international participation of Cuba in several countries, and the support in the fight against epidemics and natural disasters with technicians, nurses and doctors.   
The Vice Minister stressed that after the passage of the hurricanes Gustav and Ike, Cuba increased its sanitary risk, but it intensified the preventive works in all the damaged areas.

(ACN)