Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana, the head of the Ministry of Health and the team he leads are in Cuba in talks with their colleagues from the Ministry of Health to see how to initiate cooperation.
These collaborations will be based on medical development, medical education and pharmaceutical research.
On the X of the Ministry of Health, it is written that both parties have signed cooperation agreements in the above-mentioned sectors.
Cuba and Israel are the countries known to have the most doctors in the world.
It is also a country that invests a lot of money in the health sector because the figures for the year 2024 show that it has invested at least 11.4% of the national budget.
It is more money than most of the countries of the Latin American continent (including Brazil) invest in this sector.
Cuba has more doctors than the United States with nine doctors per 1,000 people while Washington has 2.3 doctors per 1,000 people.
The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says that Cuba is the first country on the continent where children, adolescents and young people do not die from illness or become seriously ill.
According to the statistics of this department, in the year 2023, four out of every 1000 Cuban children will die before the age of five.
It is a number that is at the level of other countries that are known to develop more than Cuba.
Rwanda is also on the same path.
It has been commended for its efforts in reducing under-five mortality and maternal mortality and malaria has been reduced by 90 percent as recently reported by RBC.
AIDS has also decreased to 3%.
A major health concern today is non-communicable diseases that are largely caused by modern lifestyles.
These include cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease and more.
