Canadian medical journal recognizes success of the Cuban biotechnology
José A. Acosta, Ernesto L. Mola, Ricardo S. Rodríguez, Boris E. Acevedo, Luis H. Martinez.
Havana , February 17. The Journal of Medical Internet Research has published a review on the advances of the Cuban health system, recognizing that it is a model to show how a national information portal can contribute to system integration. This paper presents the context of the Cuban national health care system since the revolution in 1959, identifies virtual institutional infrastructures of the system associated with the Cuban National Health Care Telecommunications Network and Portal (INFOMED), and shows how they contribute to the Cuban trade in international health care service markets.
According to the authors from the Université Laval ( Quebec , Canada ): "the CIGB Business Development Group negotiation policy for alliance agreements outlines conditions regarding scientific collaboration and business investment in research and development of new pharmaceuticals". They also argue that the CIGB has extended opportunities for business and collaboration in developed and developing countries. It is worth noting that the authors found "coherence between design of the system and the socialist ideological values of its institutions: the ethic of universal and free access to health care services as well as attention to the collective social and environmental dimensions of health". The article highlights the features of health in a developing country, with a centralised national health system to cover the 100% population.
The CIGB, a vanguard institution in the Life Sciences in Cuba , is a large research-production complex, endowed with the state of the art equipment, production capacities and personnel devoted to the development of new biotechnology products in all stages, from the cloning and expression using recombinant DNA technology to industrial production. The CIGB has extensive experience in the recombinant DNA technology dated back to 1980, with more than 1300 employees, owning the most modern and efficient technology, carefully studied-beforehand facilities so as to ease the quiet and continuous workflow with a total area of more than 70 000 m 2 . The CIGB is looking for corporate partnership for joint development of R&D projects.
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