The Cuban medical collaboration and the island''s role in confronting Ebola virus will be the main issues today in the International Convention "Cuba-Salud 2015."
 
A keynote speech will be on the Cuban medical cooperation as an experience of universal coverage, in the framework of this international event taking place this week at the Havana's Conference Center.
 
The Cuban Revolution has provided solidarity support to more than 158 countries by sending 325,710 health workers, more than 76,000 have worked in 39 African countries.
 
Cuban health professionals are currently working in 67 countries, with 51,568 collaborators.
 
Medical brigades with professionals belonging to the Henry Reeve Contingent, with work experience in confronting disasters and epidemics, were sent to Sierra Leone, Guinea Conakry and Liberia.
 
A symposium will debate on Cuba's role in fighting Ebola virus.
 
Round tables will analyze the country's preparation and experience in treating patients with those afflictions in diagnosis and clinical management units.
 
Panels will be dedicated to Cuba's solidarity support to ensure the health universal coverage and the Cuban medical cooperation in countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA).
 
The program of the International Fair Health for All will show services, products and technologies to diagnose and treat neurological diseases of the International Center for Neurological Restoration (CIREN).
 
More than 220 specialized firms from 30 countries are participating in this 13th International Fair Health for All, taking place at Pabexpo fairgrounds in Havana.
 
According to the organizing committee, the objective of this exhibition is to strengthen trade and technological exchange, in contribution to the development of the participating countries.