MEDICINE IN CUBA

Cuba has a system of attention to the unique considered health in Latin America, with domestic total covering. The medical services are gratuitous for all the Cubans. It exhibits the lowest infantile death rate in Latin America and one of the lowest of the world: 6,5 for each thousand born alive. The hope of life of the Cubans when being born is of 75,2 years.

Cuba is one of the six countries of the world that produce interferon (INF). it Also produces the factor of epidermal growth, very effective healing cream against the burns; the vaccine against the hepatitis B; the vaccine antimeningocócica type B (only in the world), and the estreptoquinasa recombinante, an action medication against the heart attack of the miocardio. Medications are also elaborated against the tromboembolismos, the drops in the immune system, the hypertension, the cholesterol and some forms of cancer.