The comprehensive programs of the Cuban Public Health system made it possible to face the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in better conditions, an authorized source considered today.
As the Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal, declared on his social networks, this scheme also becomes an essential bulwark to guarantee the population a wide range of services provided from primary care.
The global disaster derived from the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus demonstrated the validity of developing solid science and innovation systems, and also of strengthening the formation of the human capital necessary to respond to the needs of citizens, said the minister.
Those same elements, he asserted, distinguish Cuban efforts in matters associated with health care, despite the difficult economic conditions that the country is going through, causing undeniable limitations of resources and services.
Portal also referred to the island’s efforts to comply with the Sustainable Development Goals in the field of health.
Faced with this agenda promoted since 2015 by the United Nations, we have expanded inter-institutional and multidisciplinary participation, integrated with national and sectoral plans, in particular with the nation’s National Plan for Economic and Social Development until 2030, he assured.
Said goal, he considered, entails a paradigm shift in the approach of substantive issues such as the Maternal-Child indicator, the confrontation with infectious diseases, the formation and training of human capital, premature mortality, among others.
He added, however, that these objectives are not new for the Antillean territory, since protecting the health of every Cuban has been a constant practice since the triumph of the Revolution.
