“We are proud of the enormous effort of the Revolution to care for and heal our children. We are equally outraged by the perfidious intention of the US government to do them the greatest possible harm,” Morales noted on social media.

On August 25, 1986, in Havana, this institution was created as the receiving center for the country’s pediatric cardiology network. It is a national reference center for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, and the leading center of the National Program for the Care of Children with Heart Disease.

It provides medical, interventional, and surgical care through inpatient and outpatient services, as well as research and comprehensive rehabilitation services using the most advanced technologies.

Prenatal and postnatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease is also performed, and complex surgical interventions, which can be carried out via open-heart surgery or catheterization, are performed, even on newborns.

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