Las Tunas closed the year with an infant mortality rate of 8.7 per thousand live births

Efforts were not enough during 2021 to maintain the results of the Maternal and Child Care Program, or at least that is what the numbers show, which serve to quantify that the vulnerable points continue to be, more or less, the same as they have been for several calendars. But this time marked by a pandemic that has disrupted all the scenarios of life, monopolizing the protagonism of the processes, both in Primary Health Care and in hospitals.

Epidemiologist Aldo Cortés

In this period of confronting the pandemic, epidemiologist Aldo Cortés González has been the most visible face in the province of Las Tunas, just as Dr. Durán is for all the Cuban people.

every ambulance and its crew are equipped with the means of protection to deal with any eventuality

Not infrequently the sound of ambulance sirens breaks the silence in the neighborhoods; other times, it is the usual buses, turned into sanitary transports that catch the curious eyes.

Electromedicine workers

Being "24 hours a day at the service of Health" is not only their slogan, the intense days at the Provincial Center of Electromedicine, in Las Tunas, mark stressful routines in which there is no other priority than maintaining equipment, laboratories, oxygen ... everything ready.