Cuba Culture News and Information
Cuba News and Information
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Cuba will soon distribute a medication, only one of its kind in the world, to treat diabetic foot ulcers in all Angilology services in the country.
In statements to the press in Havana, the director of the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center (CIGB) Doctor Luis Herrera underscored the advantages of the medication produced by his entity, known as Heberprot-P, which has been administered to more than 250 Cuban patients, with successful results and full response by 87 of the cases.
Doctor Ernesto Lopez, head of the CIGB commercial division, explained that Heberprot-P is and injectable formula that steps up the cicatrization of deep and complex ulcers, thus reducing the number of amputations.
Doctor Lopez said that the medication has been registered in Cuba and included in the basic medications program; it has been patented in South Africa, Australia and Singapore. The Cuban medication is also expected to be patented in Japan, the United States and in Europe.
There are 350, 000 diabetic patients in Cuba, 12,000 of whom may be suffering from diabetic foot ulcers, while the number of amputations could reach up to 1,800, the doctor explained.
With that in mind, said the specialist, Cuba is creating all conditions and training personnel to administer Heberprot-P throughout the country including primary medical attention. Doctor Perez added that the medication will be available to all patients suffering from diabetic food ulcers.
Heberprot-P, a medication produced by Cuban biotechnology, reduces the number of surgical operations, cicatrization time, possible complications like gangrene and infections, and avoids high costs derived from long-time hospitalization; it also improves quality of life and the functional recovery of patients.
Doctor Jorge Berlanga, also from the CIGB, explained that 85 percent of amputations can be prevented, while 70 percent of those surgeries are applied on patients suffering from diabetes, a disease affecting some 194 million people around the world.
Imagine when the US and Cuba can cooperate on biotechnology.
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There is an error in your citation of the Agencia Cubana de Noticias press release. Your article says that Herbeprot-P “has been administered to more than 250 Cuban patients, with successful results and full response by 87 of the cases.” That would amount to a 35% success rate. What the original press release reports is “successful results and full response by 87% of the cases”. This means that roughly 218 patients out of the 250 patients treated with Herberprot-P showed a full successful response to the treatment.
Can you tell me how to get ahold of some of this medication?
I am afflicted with a foot ulcer and I think that I could benefit from the treatment.
I have been laying in bed for over 1 month and I am still not fully healed.
very slow because I have diabetes Type II also.
Thank you for your reply.
Evey Loyo
I don’t know but if I learn of something, I will post here.
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Would like to know if you can get this in Canada.
Thanks
Dear Michele Organ,
Heberprot-P was first released in 2001 under the name CITOPROT-P.
In the USA a similar product is available in a gel form under the commercial name REGRANEX (becaplermin).
I understand that it is very costly in the USA. About US$645 for a minute 15 gram tube of the gel.
perhaps you could shed some light on the cost of the gel in Canada.
I hope that this information helps you.
Evey Loyo
Tambien unos cuantos millones de personas padecemos de distintas formas de artritis, enfermedad del sistema inmunológico sumamente dolorosa y incapacitante.
Desde mi doloroso sitio frente a la computadora ruego a los hermanos médicos y científicos cubanos que dirijan también sus investigaciones a descubrir algún medicamento o programa genético a partir de las células madres para detener este *autoimmune deseases*.
Hasta la victoria siempre, Nick
hello
I am a chinese man.and got this information of Heberprot-P from CCTV of china.
this is a good information for every diabetes and also for my mother.
how can i get it or you would like to have a development in china.PLS contact me.
best regards
yangzhenli
please tell me more about Heberport-P. how does it work and its cost to the patient also. please reply as soon as possible......
I haven’t heard anything about it lately.
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Not too bad for a nation that wants to stagnate!
Dear Vapaday,
Gosh are you still fuming at how publisher called you out on your hippocracy for being as bigoted as the next fella (except your from the left) on that India article. You remind me of this insane, rabid communist zealot that use to post on this very site. His hatred for the U.S. could only be over shadowed for hatred for anyone and their opionions, that wants to see Cuba as a country free of tyranny. Oh Yeah, what was that idiots name, oh yeah “Varsi”. 
