With a topic as challenging as it is hopeful: universal health coverage, and under the One Health approach, the high-level segment of the 5th International Convention Cuba Salud 2025 was held yesterday.
Held at the Havana Convention Center, ministers and experts from various nations and organizations agreed on the challenges of broad thinking, integration of knowledge, and coordinated action. Dr. José Angel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health, emphasized that the One Health approach reminds us that human, animal, and environmental health are inseparable, because the well-being of one depends on the other.
Hence the urgent need for solutions that are as intersectoral as they are interdependent; these are the challenges we face, he emphasized before a plenary hall filled with delegates and guests from dozens of countries.
The head of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) affirmed that health and development are two closely related elements, and failure to achieve appropriate progress in health management can become one of the main obstacles to social progress.
He agreed with some of the speakers that challenges include inequalities in access to health, the persistence and increase of chronic non-communicable and emerging diseases, the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the climate crisis.
Portal Miranda emphasized that amid such complex challenges, it is imperative to work to achieve health equity, understood as ensuring access to basic services, with universal coverage for all, of all ages, and everywhere.
The future is certainly challenging, and it is up to us to ensure that the ethical aspiration of Health for All becomes a reality and not a pipe dream.Cuba’s achievements over more than six decades are a clear example that it is possible to achieve this, no matter how complex the times.
Cuba Salud 2025 will feature a broad scientific program comprised of 36 events until April 25th to discuss international public health management models, with an emphasis on the adoption of a comprehensive strategy based on an inclusive health perspective.
The Convention will include a scientific and academic framework for exchanges on the most relevant topics of the 2030 Health Agenda, in addition to the finalization of agreements, the signing of collaboration agreements, and the adoption of strategic declarations on the main topics of discussion.
The event, held at the Havana Convention Center and the Pabexpo fairgrounds, includes the 16th Health for All Trade Fair and the 2nd Medical Tourism and Wellness Fair.
With information from the Cuban News Agency
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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