Cuba honors World Health Day, April 7, with its commitment to observing health care as an universal human right as stipulated by the Constitution of the Republic and backed by the implementation of the Public Health Law.
All Cubans enjoy free and comprehensive healthcare disregarding race, religion, geographic or economic position. Today over 11 thousand neighborhood doctor’s offices and more than 491 healthcare centers in the country are working, despite the shortage of medications, medical supplies and technologies as a consequence of the US economic blockade against the Cuban people.
The Cuban deputy Health minister Carilda Peña Garcia stated that Cuba keeps control of transmissible diseases without complications, and current efforts aimed at lowering of diabetes-related risk factors as well as those associated to high-blood pressure and asthma, as published by ACN.
Cuba affirms its commitment to sanitary equality, universal access to medical attention, the official stressed and announced that the island will ark World Health Day and World Day for Physical Activity Day, April 7 and 6.
The World Health Day was established by the United Nations on October 24, 1945, aiming basically promoting worldwide peace, security, and better living conditions for everyone. One important factor for better living was public health. Taking this in consideration, the diplomats who created the United Nations discussed the need for an International World Health Organization. On April 7, 1948 the constitution of the World Health Organization came into being.
The key operation of World Health Day is to raise awareness among people about the health issues they deal with worldwide. It teaches people, organizations and governments how to address global health issues as a part of the UN’s sustainable development goals.
Cuba has done followed has coped with UN intention as providing free medical care for every citizen without any kind of distinction, on one hand, and on the other, Cuban medical care has gone beyond the national borders to take health service to different part of the world either to eradicate current diseases and illnesses or to face pandemic as Ebola and Covid-19, and in case of earthquakes and natural disasters.
Cuba is an example to follow around the world, since this commitment with solidarity is followed in conditions of deep crisis, and a inhumane US economic blockade preventing the island from acquiring medical equipment, medicine raw materials as well as medication as such.
