Cuba Guarantees Children's Right to Health with National Vaccination Campaign

Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, highlighted this Tuesday the launch of the second phase of the 65th National Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccination Campaign.

The chancellor affirmed that this process demonstrates the island government's unwavering determination to provide health and well-being to the population, especially to children, guaranteeing their fundamental right to life and health.

The head of Cuban diplomacy denounced that while the country advances in its health programs, the U.S. government insists on asphyxiating the nation under mendacious pretexts. Rodríguez directly pointed to the impact of the fuel siege, which is essential for ensuring the transport of medicines and maintaining active cold chains.

The energy crisis, a product of the U.S. oil blockade, generates severe logistical disruptions throughout the national territory. Previously, the Caribbean nation's chancellor informed that the lack of fuel is preventing the distribution across the country of approximately 50 percent of the medicines produced in Cuba over recent months.

On January 29 of this year, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing an energy blockade by threatening to impose tariffs on goods from countries that supply oil to the island, generating a fuel shortage in the Greater Antilles. The U.S. aggression has recently been reinforced by imposing sanctions against the state company Unión Cuba-Petróleo (CUPET), a strangulation measure aimed at restricting the island's energy operations.

Despite current limitations, Cuba does not stop. Recently, the pharmaceutical sector reported the reactivation of production of 16 cytostatic drugs for the National Program for the Care of Oncology Patients. The Foreign Minister affirmed that this achievement, reached after a significant investment process at the AICA laboratories cytostatic plant, demonstrates the state's will to continue working for citizen welfare, with each drug produced representing a sign of sovereignty and hope.