The medical sciences of the province of Las Tunas register, by its characteristics, the most critical maternal case of the last times

Yillian, 15 years old, went to the Doctor Ernesto Guevara de la Serna General Teaching Hospital with aggravated high blood pressure, 38 weeks of pregnancy. After an urgent cesarean section, several surgeries followed due to bleeding and intra-abdominal infection, which led to surgical repair of the organic area. For many days, she had total respiratory, hemodynamic and renal artificial support.

MSc Alexey Moreno

Alexey Moreno is 46 years old and has a degree in agricultural engineering. Judging by his verbal skills, he may also have been a communicator. However, neither one nor the other: 23 years ago, a sustained streak in the shape of a hunch pushed him into the very eye of a profession from which he could never leave again: Meteorology. Today he is the technical deputy director of the Tunas Meteorological Center.

Juan Emilio Batista Cruz

With a photographic memory, Juan Emilio evokes, with a semicolon, the time he arrived at the Arena bar proclaiming his tamales, when a "casquito" (policeman), with tremendous drunkenness, hit him in the face and pushed him. He ended up on the floor on one side, and the bucket with the tamales on the other.

Vilma in Las Tunas

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), the federated of Las Tunas retraced the route of Vilma in the province. They treasure living history that still springs from those who knew her. 

 Cerro de Caisimu, in Las Tunas

At 124 meters above sea level, right on the road that connects the municipality of Las Tunas with that of Manatí, in the north of the province, El Cerro de Caisimú (The Caisimú Hill) rises, one of the main elevations of the local geography, characterized by its vast plains.