Let’s move on, so we have more microbuses circulating

There is no doubt that the electric microbuses that circulate in Sancti Spiritus are a viable alternative in Cuba.

Pastor Batista Valdés | pastor@granma.cu

April 4, 2025

Picture: Pastor Batista Valdes

 

The eco-mobiles are light, have very good mobility, they are ecologically sound and comfortable. On top of these, they offer good service at reasonable prices to the population of Sancti Spíritus. It hurts to know that, due to the present economic conditions affecting Cuba, there are no funds or ways to finance the continuation here, and the extension to other parts of Cuba, of the use of these electric microbuses made, by the Military Industrial Corporation Francisco Aguiar Rodríguez, in this province.

 

In recent declarations to the press, José Lorenzo García, from the Ministry of Transport in Sancti Spiritus, underlined the huge support the first five microbuses have had in this city where they are functioning for some time now. Created for urban transport of passengers, like a very opportune alternative in connection to fuel deficits and lack of parts and others, the small vehicles have been a hit -light, effective, ecologically sound, comfortable, economic. At this point, explains José Lorenzo, there are 23 finished microbuses, the idea is to be able to make at least 50. The main challenge faced is that currently microbuses are charged within the Electric National System which is unable to provide energy supply for a larger number of microbuses. A project focused on ensuring solar energy to charge the microbuses is a good option that still requires financial support in convertible money. Ideally Sancti Spiritus should count with its own electric generator and the sun energy could be an acceptable option.  The most difficult part, the making of microbuses, is done here. Finding a solution for how to ensure sufficient energy to run them seems not an impossible task for the people of this province or for Cuba. Urban transportation requires microbuses. As Alexis Lorente Jimenez, governor of Sancti Spiritus pointed during a friendly conversation with the Ambassador of India in Cuba, the use of microbuses could be expanded to include its use in social activities of value or need within the province and within the country.

 

Translation NSCUBA

 

Cuban doctors will never accept aggression of any kind against Cuba’s health system.

For a number of months now Cuban doctors have been at the center of an aggressive and manipulative media campaign.

Author: Redacción Nacional | internet@granma.cu

April 2, 2025

 

 

Workers from the Institute of Hematology and Immunology together with professors in a number of Medical Sciences specialties confronted the most recent defamation campaign against health professionals in Cuba and outside of Cuba.

 According to a recent report by Cuban Television, the Cuban Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation together with Neurology and Hematology have expressed their support for Cuban doctors and health professionals in sync with  their views and feelings in relation to the aggressive campaigns of hatred and lies that attempted to discredit the altruistic work of Cuban medicine.

 In taking this stand the mentioned societies express the views and feelings of their members and support them during challenging times.

 Doctor Wilfredo Roque Garcia, director of the Institute of Hematology and Immunology (IHI), explained that for a number of months now medical professionals have been singled out by an aggressive and very manipulative, and at times violent, media campaign that through lies and slander has attacked our professionals and our institution.  

 The chief of IHI Pediatric Services, Doctor Lucelia Leyva reported that, in one of the live broadcasts carried out by people who follow the doctors promoting these hate campaigns "people was encouraged to come to the institution on a medical leave, because, they falsely claimed, in the hospital patients were being kidnapped, assaulted, or that there was negligence or abandonment, evidence of their call to hatred or violence."  

 The mentioned report highlights that the Institute of Hematology and Immunology (IHI) is an institution of excellence in Cuban Medicine, a national benchmark regarding hematological and immunological diseases, which has accumulated a number of scientific achievements and innovations, and stands out in education and professional formation of human resources for the Cuban National System of Health.

 Doctor Olga Margarita Agramonte, president of the Cuban Society of Hematology, pointed to IHI, an institution founded in 1966 having among its achievements a high rating in curing childhood leukemia (between 89 and 90% of curability), in itself a marker for social development.

 In the face of the U.S. Secretary of State's measures against Cuba's international medical cooperation and the hate campaign by anti-Cuban media, the union of medical professionals defends its humanitarian and solidarity mission.

 

FROM THE DECLARATION OF THE CUBAN SOCIETY OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

 • The ethical dilemmas a physician faces in his or her practice are diverse, but a doctor does not lie, manipulate, injure, or humiliate; he or she always puts his or her solidarity, altruism, and desire to overcome illness and any difficulties that may arise above all else, for the good of his or her patient, family, and colleagues.

 • A Cuban doctor cares for and protects, shows solidarity, and is committed to the comprehensive well-being of people, regardless of their origin, ethnicity, social position, status, and family environment. A Cuban doctor, wherever they may be, also shows profound respect for other specialists.

 • The profession we represent will never share the attacks on the Cuban healthcare system or the work we do daily. Our work, amidst enormous shortages and collective and individual sacrifices, speaks for itself.

 Translation NSCuba