Since the triumph on January 1, the Cuban Revolution defined the policy in terms of guaranteeing public health, for so many years forgotten and battered. Today, it strives to consolidate medical services and enforce the principle of health for all.
Cuba is an example to the world in guaranteeing the right to health. It goes even further, because it has the human potential precisely formed from the revolutionary triumph and offers solidarity collaboration to countries like Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Pakistan and other nations in distant places that have faced natural disasters, epidemics and they do not have qualified personnel. The right to health is still a privilege in some countries because it is not available to the entire population. When arriving on April 7 to World Health Day, there are no guarantees to provide basic medical services in order to preserve and care for all human beings throughout the world.
The human potential in Cuba, highly qualified not only for its training, but also for its ethical values, is an example of the new physician needed by today's world. Cuban doctors offer their experience and knowledge generously with a high dose of love in favor of life. The Cuban strategy takes into account prevention as the main antidote against diseases. Educating the population demonstrates the capacity of health sector workers in the development of conferences and workshops on health issues in order to consolidate the culture of the population. Health messages through the media allow addressing issues for the whole family. From an early age, they work for the quality of life, providing guidance on healthy lifestyles from the practice of correct physical exercise and eating habits, as well as the proposal of a responsible sexuality so as not to contract sexually transmitted infections and protect against HIV-AIDS.
Health in Cuba is not only limited to medical services from primary care, but provides guidance for learning new lifestyles away from alcohol, smoking and drugs, aimed at the fundamental goal: the defense of human health . Humanity needs, on this World Health Day, that life be respected; That is why it is necessary to stop the war, so that health is a right and not a privilege.