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Overall healthcare access and coverage in Cuba are based on three key principles: healthcare as mankind’s right, equity and solidarity. Back in 2010, as part of the update of the Cuban economic and social model, the National Healthcare System underwent a transformation process in a bid to make it more efficient and sustainable, thus assuring development and increasing the people’s satisfaction by providing high quality services.
This process has allowed us to reorganize, regionalize and put services together, improve the training of human resources and develop research processes in line with the people’s health requirements. Likewise, international medical cooperation has been reordered in an effort to enhance and diversify collaboration areas and export services.
These achievements will support the strengthening of the Cuban Program of Families’ Doctor and Nurse, as well as teaching-educational activities, research, training and continuous improvement of human resources, by following a comprehensive quality strategy based on the certification of healthcare institutions.
The Public Health Ministry implemented a Program for the efficiency and rational use of resources, with special emphasis on the use of the clinical method with an epidemiologic approach, the proper use of diagnose–therapeutic means and other actions with the aim set on increasing the economic culture in the sector and ensuring its sustainability.
The fulfillment of the challenges presently faced by Cuba’s Public Health multiplies the commitment to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, who taught us a social conception of medicine, based on ethics, confidence in mankind and internationalist vocation. These values are part of the Revolution concept, which synthetizes his brilliant thinking.