On February 24, 1970, a 23-year-old man became the first Cuban with a successful kidney transplant.

Cuba is exhibiting this Monday one of its greatest achievements in the field of public health, counting more than six thousand kidney transplants since February 24, 1970.

The medicines are sold simultaneously in all pharmacies

Throughout the province of Las Tunas, measures are taken to affect the population as little as possible to the deficit of just over 100 drugs in the basic chart, among those imported and of domestic production, as a direct consequence of the US blockade and the lack of liquidity in the economy.

More than five thousand people are living with cancer in Las Tunas today.

She is a warrior in all directions; one of those who fights her own battles without much noise. She knows how to reinvent motifs and see colors where others would only perceive muted shades. So common and yet so singular is Bárbara Mendoza Vázquez, a breast cancer survivor for 17 years now.