United Nations Educational Organization. Author: Marcelino Vasquez Hernandez/ACN
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Cuba resumed their traditional collaboration when, by mutual agreement, the day before they established a Department of Medicinal Plants at the University of Havana (UH).
According to a report by the Cuban News Agency, the new space should become an object that brings together results for the implementation of the National Plan for Sustainable Development for the period up to 2030, said Marian Hernandez Colina, PhD, the first vice-rector of this center. higher education at the ceremony of its establishment in Aula Magna.
The main goal is that we have a population, albeit demographically older, healthy, healthy, that contributes to the social boom that the Motherland deserves, he said in the presence of representatives of this world group, national scientists, experts and guests, including Roberto Fellano,
The Italian ambassador is accredited in Havana.
He proposed to take into account the choice of soil for cultivation with a molecular, clinical approach, a guarantee of safety and health in its consumption, a connection with social sciences and the tasks of influencing university students.
The headquarters will be the Center for the Study of Natural Products of the Faculty of Chemistry, whose coordinator Iraida Spengler Salabarria said at the meeting that it will contribute to the sustainable use of natural resources, the prevention of biodiversity loss, extinction
endangered species and preserve ecosystems.
He recalled that natural and traditional medicine has been responding to the political will of the country’s top leadership for more than 30 years, especially the Revolutionary Armed Forces and, in particular, General of the Army Raul Castro Ruz.
Cuba has the largest plant diversity of any of the Caribbean islands, and of the approximately 7,200 species of vascular plants, 50 percent are endemic, but it also has a long history of medicinal use, the expert cited.
Source: Juventud Rebelde