Dr. Nersa Vega, director of the Las Tunas Provincial Blood Bank

Pakistan marked her life with a halo of pain that she still carries in her heart, no matter how many years pass. She remembers the icy air in her lungs the first time she stepped off the plane, aware that this would be her most difficult international mission and that on the other side, all the destruction of Kashmir awaited her. It was the beginning of October 2005.

The maternity homes are fundaental to guarantee follow-up care and adequate nutrition for pregnant women.Maternity homes are fundamental to guarantee follow-up care and adequate nutrition for pregnant women.

The Las Tunas Provincial Health Directorate is strengthening the strategies of the Maternal and Child Care Program (PAMI, in Spanish) to improve the health indicators that currently compromise the well-being of the mothers and newborns.

The Oncohematology Service in Las Tunas reflects the reality of public health in Cuba.

In the Oncohematology Service of the Doctor Ernesto Guevara de la Serna General Teaching Hospital, every drop of medicine that enters a patient's bloodstream is a small victory against a relentless disease and against an even more persistent external obstacle: the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States government against Cuba.

Institutions in Las Tunas unite to combat the scourge of drugs.

The Doctor Ernesto Guevara de la Serna General Teaching Hospital is the headquarters of an “Intervention Strategy for Combating and Controlling Drug Abuse in Las Tunas,” a pioneering initiative that brings together five entities, with the Provincial Psychiatric Hospital, the University of Medical Sciences, the Gustavo Alderaguía Polyclinic (as a pilot in primary care), provincial media, and the tourism sector, with the aim not only of curing but also of preventing through science and community involvement.

Complex neurological surgery.

He could see better. That was one of the first certainties confirmed by the medical staff after completing a skull base surgery, which kept an 11-year-old boy from Las Tunas in the operating room of the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (INN) in Havana for six hours.