According to the director of the Provincial Hospital Ciego de Ávila, Dr. Alberto Moronta, to Prensa Latina, the regulations confirm the constitutional principle of respect for free and quality access to health services in the country.
Likewise, the legislation covers essential issues for the population arising from the recent adoption of the Family Code, including the use of assisted reproductive techniques for infertile couples, said the also member of the national parliament.
The law provides a comprehensive overview of the possibilities of conceiving a pregnancy and measures related to sexual and reproductive health in general, the doctor is abundant.
Moronta emphasizes that the legal instrument strengthens and adapts to modern times the obligations and rights of people having access to health services, as well as the adequate protection of workers in this vital sector of society.
The young parliamentarian assured that the regulations are in line with the international regulatory framework and the world's health systems, while reinforcing the vision of a strategic vision for the future of Cuban medicine.
These peculiarities of the Caribbean island's public health law will ensure that it remains in place in the long term, as it contains numerous new elements on which internal regulations will be issued that will make it viable, he assured.
He mentioned people's ability to make end-of-life decisions, coupled with the autonomy to decide on a dignified death, subject to procedures and regulations still to be developed.
The process surrounding the approved standard is just beginning, Moronta assured, as it will be complemented by several sectors of the country that escape the institutional framework of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap), including the Ministry of Science, Technology and half for environment. Among other things, in the area of higher education.
This law, he added, also refers to environmental health, water, occupational safety and health, as well as radiological safety, in which the country's nuclear medicine institutes intervene and which must be linked to the health system. Health.
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