Health Services

Minimum Access Surgery

Cuba features a national surgery network and access to minimum access technique, so it’s ranked among the most outstanding countries in these procedures in the region. With 119 service facilities distributed throughout the national territory, this network undergoes a permanent revitalization and modernization process aimed at developing each of the surgical specialties, as part of a policy to foster minimum access techniques on the Island.

Services comprised by the Program:GENERAL SURGERY:
1. Inguinal Hernioplasty. Minimum access
2. Heller Cardiomyotomy. Minimum access (treatment for esophageal achalasia)
3. Funduplicatura. Minimum access (treatment for gastroesophageal reflux and hiatal hernia)
4. Suprarenalectomy. Minimum access
5. Splenectomy. Minimum access
6. Bariatric Surgery. Minimum access
7. Obesity. Gastric Plication. Assessment
8. Obesity. Laparoscopic Gastric Plication
9. Cholecystectomy. Minimum access
10. Colectomy. Minimum access
11. Trans-thorax Sympathectomy. Minimum access
12. Parietal Pleurectomy. Minimum access
13. Resection of pleural mass, lung or mediastinum. Minimum access
14. Resection of bullae and pleurectomy. Minimum access

UROLOGY. MINIMUM ACCESS SURGERY:
1. Nephrectomy simple. Minimum access
2. Kidney Cyst Exeresis. Minimum access
3. Pyeloplasty. Minimum access
4. Resection of transurethral prostate. Minimum access
5. Ureterolithotomy. Minimum access