A warning call arose among health professionals: drug that circulates today, is not the same that will move through the streets for the next week.

The First Provincial Workshop on Addictions, led by Health specialists in Las Tunas, was held on the definitions of concepts to distinguish which are drugs of abuse, the addicted patient, and each of the types of drugs, as part of a work strategy aimed at dispensing, training, and dialogue in the management of patients.

Dr. Emilio Lastre is second-degree specialist in psychiatry.

After decades of fair negotiations and following a career that is a source of pride in the faces of the generations of doctors who were trained under his rigor, Dr Emilio Alfonso Lastre Arrieta has been awarded as Professor Emeritus, in recognition of the Minister of Higher Education, and has become the first doctor of Las Tunas to receive such a distinction.

Dr. Aliosky Montero Escala

He came to Las Tunas by another chance, and the son of Mantua, Pinar del Río, confesses that he carries the duality rooted in him because this is also his homeland. As a master in Emergency Medicine, assistant professor, and president of the Academic Committee of the specialty, his dialogue is bifurcated, but the doctor is faithful to his patients, to the maelstrom of the ward, and to those precious seconds in which life or death takes hold.

Neonatology service at the Dr. Ernesto Guevara Hospital

Las Tunas closed the year 2024 with an infant mortality rate of 6.3 per thousand live births and the strength of a more consensual and multidisciplinary management.

Dr. Eduardo Roberto Villamil Toranzo

He was barely tall enough to stand above the table and one thing was already very clear to him: "I'm going to be a doctor." And the reminder came to him with a mixture of commitment and vocation, because in his lineage, at some point, thirty-something wore white coats... So that would also be his path, but he was not going to be an ordinary one but "the one that people would like the most...”