The Public Health Adviser and Supervisor of the Health Promotion Center, Dr. Saleh Al-Ansari, suggested three guaranteed steps to dispense with eating sweets, by practicing intermittent fasting, starting from 10 hours, by early dinner until seven or eight in the evening, and delaying breakfast, calling for increasing the hours of the intermittent fasting period gradually by adding half An hour every week, taking care to sleep early and practice walking.
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Khosta-2: a new coronavirus, resistant to vaccines, discovered in bats
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Will Covid-19 have a not-so-distant cousin? According to a study published this week, scientists have discovered a virus of the same family as Sars-Cov-2, the virus causing Covid, in bats in Russia. According to them, this coronavirus, called Khosta-2, was circulating there from 2020. So far, nothing abnormal, these species of animals containing many viruses discovered over time.
On the other hand, the latest research seems more worrying. According to experts, not only is this coronavirus able to replicate in humans, but it might also bypass the immune protection provided by current vaccines once morest Covid-19. To reach this conclusion, the study authors checked whether the serum of patients vaccinated once morest Covid-19 neutralized Khosta-2. The result was negative.
Fifth-year medical student and native of Guantánamo, Cinthia Matos Benítez, criticized Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel for his inability to guarantee the well-being of the Cuban people: “you have no morals”Told him.
Tired of political propaganda, Matos lashed out at the president for imposing a political ideology instead of “prioritize the well-being of your people, their health, their medicines, their surgeries and resources to save their lives.”
Victim of the sanitary collapse in Cuba, the young woman, who has been admitted to the heart center in Santiago de Cuba for nine months waiting for surgery and living off the foreign solidarity, considered that “everyone should think and act as they see fit, without having to commit a crime. Politics in a town should be optional, not compulsory”.
On the criteria of social welfare and how to achieve it, I add that “A prosperous town needs jobs and fair salaries, not a round table where the problems of others are analyzed more than their own”he pointed out in reference to the world in which the official discourse deals with issues of other countries such as the United States, more than it tries to discuss and resolve domestic ones.
As the text progresses, it becomes clear that Matos’s criticism is aimed at the official campaign for the approval of the Family Code under the argument that it will guarantee more rights for all, while recognizing the rights of vulnerable groups, traditionally relegated.
However, Matos mentions other types of vulnerability and abandonment, the one suffered by children and the one suffered by retirees.
“Children need to be happy, they need toys, they need sweets, they need good nutrition. They don’t need to be like Ché.”he said, adding that retirees need a retirement that allows them to live the rest of their lives without worries, instead of “selling peanuts or candy to eat.”
In a general sense, he maintained that the peoples need “freedom of expression, self-determination and human rights, not four news programs loaded with lies and inflated data.”
The young woman also pointed out that a town that needs a foreign currency to be able to eat as a person, is a town immersed in misery and failure. Likewise, I point to the instability that exists and the absence of a future in Cuba.
At the end, he declared himself Against the Family Code and assured that Cubans “need a change”.
Cinthia spent months waiting for a stent for her heart because the country didn’t have one and she mightn’t buy it. After complaints in social networks, the Ministry of Public Health acquired the device.
In June, she was finally operated on and the stent inserted, although this is only a first step to be able to access another surgery that is more complex and the one that might really correct the heart failure she suffers.
Waiting for this, he remains with treatment, whose medicines are not always available. Two months ago, he denounced the absence of the drug Clopidogrel, which he must take daily to improve his quality of life.
The drug was not available in the public system, however, on the black market it is sold for 200 pesos.
“How is it possible, president of my country, that I don’t now have medicine to take if we are a medical power?… We don’t want to continue in misery, we don’t want to be directed anymore”, questioned then.
In the middle of this month, in an appearance on the Mesa Redonda television program, the president of BioCubaFarma, Eduardo Martínez Díaz, said that Cuba does not have the financing or the resources to obtain raw materials necessary for the production of medicines, which represents the 94% of fouls.
According to data from the National Office of Statistics and Information of Cuba (ONEI) last year, coinciding with the shortage of medicines and the coronavirus pandemic in Cuba, investment in Public Health was less than 1% of the country’s income .
Up to 12 thousand dollars costs a doctorate in Medicine for foreigners in Cuba
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Los Doctorates in Medicine and Stomatology in Cuba they cost up to 12,000 dollars for foreignersaccording to official sources.
The Marketer of Cuban Medical Services (CSMC) published the study offers of a medical specialty in the country, through its official pagewhere three other doctorates are also promoted: Nursing Sciences, Health Sciences and Medical Education Sciences.
“We offer you the experience of more than 290 years of medical education at the service of the world” “The articulation of theory with practice distinguishes us”, are some of the slogans with which the state-owned company promotes offers of medical services on its Facebook profile. postgraduate.
The total cost of the specialties, as stated on the CSMC website, includes the payment of tuition, once it was accepted by the Academic Committee; mastery exams of the contents of social problems of science and technology and foreign language; pre-defense, defense, tutoring and advice.
Within the breakdown, the highest price is for the tutoring and counseling service ($4,000). The total amount, indicated the CSMC, must be paid in two payments, one in the first 30 days, following enrollment in the program, and another before the pre-defense.
Although the price of the other “academic and teaching services” has not yet been specified – apparently the page is being updated – 28 bachelor’s degrees, 33 master’s degrees, two specialties and opportunities for professional improvement are promoted in eight Cuban universities of Medical Sciences.
According to the official source, postgraduate students – who must add the cost of their stay in the country to the payment of their studies – must deposit the money by bank transfers or payment gateways and for this they can use VISA, MasterCard, Maestro, AMERICAN EXPRESS, among others, and only in the currencies indicated by them: euros, pounds sterling or Canadian dollars.
In the midst of one of the biggest crises that the health system has faced in Cuba, the government commercializes the educational offer in the area of Medical Sciences and continues to earn money from the export of Cuban doctors, although this income is not reflected in the Cuban health services.
As reported recently, the government of Mexico pays the Havana regime more than one million dollars per month for the hiring of 610 Cuban doctors, by an agreement signed between the IMSS (Mexican Social Security Institute) and the so-called Cuban Medical Services Trader, SA
The CSMC It is in charge of marketing medical tourism, quality of life and well-being, academic and health services outside of Cuba.
In a scenario of scarcity in health institutions for the population, the hospitals of the CSMC company are “equipped with the most modern technology and where innovative techniques are applied for a rapid and effective diagnosis in more than 150 therapeutic procedures,” according to publicity. the place.