Havana, ABR (ACN) The preparation of Health systems for the confrontation of epidemics today focused the debate in the high -level segment of the V Convention Cuba Health 2025, with the participation of representatives from several countries and officials of Cuba.
Carilda Peña García, Deputy Minister of Public Health, said that the appearance of emerging infectious and reemerging diseases demands to consolidate more effective health protocols for early detection and transmission control.
The Covid-19 Pandemia left lessons to the health system in the transformation of services with an integrative approach and the need to strengthen the production of vaccines and other technologies, he emphasized.
He called to combine efforts between governments to enhance research and raise the training of professionals, in order to improve the capacity to respond to future epidemics.
Lydwine Baradahana, Minister of Health of Burundi, highlighted in the meeting that Cuban medical cooperation in the African nation has contributed to improving health indicators with medical services in difficult access areas and the fight against diseases such as malaria and the human immunodeficiency virus.
In the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemia, Burundi received the members of the international contingent of specialized doctors in disaster situations and serious epidemics Henry Reeve, who without rest contributed to save lives, reinforcing the emergency care and intensive care of the patients of Coronavirus, said the official.
Jorge Figueiredo, head of Health in Cabo Verde, said it was the third country to receive medical collaboration when the global epidemic, composed of doctors, nurses and hygiene and epidemiology specialists, who also from academic training helped consolidate emergency protocols before epidemic outbreaks.
Health authorities agreed on the importance of developing early alert systems to avoid the propagation of transmissible diseases and develop a greater amount of vaccines for national immunization plans, providing resources to guarantee equitable and universal access to health.
