Amid an acute shortage of medicines in pharmacies and a growing health crisis in Cuba, BioCubafarma will sell some of its products to Brazil, following a key meeting with representatives of the municipality of Maricá.
According to a report by the Cuban News Agency (ACN), this weekend, Havana hosted a meeting between executives of the state-owned conglomerate BioCubafarma and a delegation from the Brazilian municipality of Maricá, where bilateral cooperation strategies in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors were discussed.
The meeting, held amid the health crisis the island is experiencing, included discussions on technology transfer, joint research projects and the export of Cuban medicines to Brazil.
According to information released by BioCubafarma on the social network X, the collaboration is part of an effort to strengthen South-South cooperation, particularly in public health.
As a result of the meeting, agreements were also signed between the Maricá Mayor's Office, its Institute of Innovation Technology, and two key Cuban scientific institutions: the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) and the Finlay Vaccine Institute.
One of the highlights is the Creation of a joint venture that will allow the production in Brazil of medicines such as Heberprot-P and vaccines developed in Cuba.
The CIGB described the agreement as "historic" because it will allow Cuban technology to be combined with the industrial capacity of the South American giant.
Sale of medicines from Cuba to Brazil
Why does this agreement attract attention among ordinary Cubans? The very likely export and sale of medicines and pharmaceuticals to Brazil from Cuba contrasts with the domestic situation, where many patients face difficulties accessing basic treatments due to the shortage of many basic medications on the island.
La The shortage of medicines on the island is not limited only to local pharmacies, since the situation is almost the same in polyclinics and hospitals, not to mention doctors' offices, which are "dying" due to a lack of specialists, prescriptions, and medications.
Due to this ongoing shortage, the Cuban government extended the deadline until September 2025 tariff benefits for the "importation of food, toiletries and medicines."
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You guys are really damned, you make really strong headlines and I don't know if that's what gives you the chance for someone to read them (even I get provoked sometimes), but do something serious, what medicines are you going to export? Does that compromise the basic medicine list or does that help try to get closer to being able to guarantee those medicines that are really basic? Do not do more damage or change the name and do not associate it with Cuba anymore to seek ratings.
Cuba, go ahead. Through an agreement with Brazil, we can produce more and generate foreign currency income from those same sales.
To balance the article, it was necessary to explain that the income from these and other businesses of this organization is intended to finance the production of medicines for national consumption.
These bastards will never say that... read the big headline they put there and that's it... they want you to read it
It is disrespectful to the people who have to buy medicines at high prices on the black market because there is nothing in the pharmacy and hospitals, these are words.
It is unacceptable to sell medicines to another country when they do not exist even in hospitals.
And the government makes agreements, the President continues traveling and the country, with each passing day, sinks deeper into misery and the people continue to suffer from the bad decisions of those who govern.
I don't understand why in Cuba there is no medicine for almost anything, so we can be so generous and sell to other countries, or maybe they provide us with the means so that the Cuban people can have medicine and the necessary means in hospitals.
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