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2021 was one of the worst years for public health in Cuba

This was acknowledged by Minister José Ángel Portal Miranda at a press conference, where he highlighted that the COVID-19 pandemic was very hard for the country.

by OnCuba Staff
April 12, 2022
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Patient with COVID-19 in a medical institution in the Cuban province of Ciego de Ávila. Photo: Osvaldo Gutierrez/ACN.

Patient with COVID-19 in a medical institution in the Cuban province of Ciego de Ávila. Photo: Osvaldo Gutierrez/ACN.

Cuban Minister of Public Health José Ángel Portal acknowledged this Saturday that 2021 was the “hardest” year for the sector “in recent decades” due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although he highlighted the work of health personnel in that scenario.

The minister, quoted by the official media Cubadebate, recalled that the circulation of the Delta variant of the coronavirus — whose first case in the country was detected in March 2020 — led to a complex epidemiological panorama during the past July and August.

Portal considered the high level of immunization in the Cuban population, where nearly 90% of the 11.2 million inhabitants have at least one dose of the three nationally produced COVID-19 vaccines, as an advance in the health system.

However, he blamed the crisis generated by the pandemic and the “strengthening” of the U.S. economic embargo for the “sensitive” impact on the “availability of resources and on population health indicators.”

Last year, “the number of deaths increased in all the country’s territories, with the 60-year-old age group being the most affected,” he said. He added that “COVID-19 had a negative impact on recorded infant and maternal mortality rates.”

The report also recognizes “the lack of and low coverage of medicines, medical supplies, diagnostic kits, expendable material” and “problems in the technological infrastructure, obsolescence and breakdown of equipment.”

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Portal Miranda highlighted that, in the health sector, the country has around 510,700 workers, of which 69% are women and more than 260,000 are professionals, but hospital management is still showing difficulties due to the measures adopted to confront the pandemic and “it is not possible to cover the demand for elective services,” as a result of the “deficit of medical and organizational resources and the non-compliance of some services with gaps in the safety of patient care.”

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