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Recently in the Cuban capital took place the National Workshop of decentralization of the integral treatment for patients with Hemophilia in Cuba, fruitful encounter where was recognized in this medical specialty the work of the holguineros professionals of the Pediatric Hospital "Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja".
Several organizations in Holguín have supported the arrival of hundreds of health professionals from Brazil. In this process, the role of the Holguín Taxi Base Business Unit stands out due to the guarantee of safe transportation to the most remote places of residence of the collaborators, regardless of distance or time of arrival in the provincial capital.
Peritoneal dialysis is an option available for patients with chronic kidney failure in Holguin. This technique practiced in the Surgical Clinical Hospital "Lucía Iñiguez Landín" since 2013 contributes to the purification of the kidney by using the membrane of the abdomen as a kind of natural filter, which prolongs the survival of the people benefited.
Several activities take place in Holguín in greeting to the Latin American Day of fight against oral cancer, day in which this December 5th the professionals of the medical branch in the territory intensify promotion and prevention actions in dental services, workplaces, schools and communities.
Every December 3rd, Latin American Medicine Day is celebrated, a way of paying tribute to the eminent Cuban doctor Carlos J. Finlay, who discovered yellow fever and its transmitting agent, the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
Holguín, in eastern Cuba, is the territory with the highest rate of population aging. It is a challenge for society and the family who are in charge of caring for the more than 200,800 older adults who live here.
Happy to have fulfilled their internationalist mission in Brazil, but also worried about the fate that awaits that people with the newly elected president, the first 196 Cuban aid workers arrived in the homeland this Thursday after learning of the island's decision to end its medical collaboration there.
Cuba has a solid work in primary care, promotion and prevention and in the management of social determinants, which are a reference for the world, said Erika Caballero, from Chile, member of the International Council of Nursing (ICN)
Active screening for chronic diseases is very effective in the early detection of oncological conditions such as colon and prostate cancer.
During this 31st of October and the first of November Holguín welcomes nearly 200 delegates from all its northeastern territory in the Calixto García Iñiguez polytechnic centre to carry out at provincial level Pedagogy 2019, an event that brings together the most innovative scientific research obtained in the educational field.
For several years the health sector in Holguín has been recognized by the results achieved in the Annual Health Award, the only one of its kind in Cuba and the most scientifically significant for the Cuban health system.
The VI International Congress "Health and Quality of Life", scheduled to take place in April next year, at the Hotel Club Amigo Guardalavaca will promote the exchange of scientific and academic criteria on good health practices of the population and public health policies.
