Sixth edition of the Glaucotuna project

On October 8, World Sight Day, the sixth edition of the Glaucotuna project held its third workshop of the year, with a focus on collaboration and mutual support.

Neonaltal nurse Norge served on an international mission in Mozambique.

Some people believe that newborns don’t communicate. Norge González Peña, a neonatal nurse at the Dr. Ernesto Guevara General Teaching Hospital in Las Tunas, knows that’s not true. For 31 years, he has been deciphering the language of the very youngest —a language not spoken with words, but with gestures, with cries that signal hunger or pain, and with glances that ask for calm. And he has done so not only in Cuba but also in Mozambique, where death was a daily visitor and life had to be defended tooth and nail from the very first minute.

Periodontologist Omelio Fontaine Machado.

"Look inside yourselves and feel the pain of others... When you do, you will be better professionals and human beings." That phrase is not a speech. It is what Omelio Fontaine Machado repeats to his residents every day at the 3 de Octubre dental clinic, and it is also what summarizes his 33 years of experience behind the green instruments.

World Mental Health Day is celebrated on October 10

  • World Mental Health Day will be celebrated on October 10, an opportune time to reinforce the message that 45 percent of the risk of dementia can be prevented or delayed through lifestyle changes and the management of chronic diseases.

Survival rates ranked Las Tunas among the top six provinces in the country last year.

In the watchful silence of a ward at the Dr. Ernesto Guevara General Teaching Hospital in Las Tunas, life is measured in grams and weeks. This is no ordinary ward; it is the temporary home of the smallest and most vulnerable, a place where every breath is a triumph and every gram gained is a battle won.