Healthcare

Ecuador’s Health Ministry activated epidemiological surveillance and a rapid-response protocol in Cuenca after a suspected measles case. Health workers are checking vaccination cards, applying free doses where needed, and monitoring public and private health facilities for additional suspected cases.

Cuenca-born hematologist Esteban Tamariz is working in Navarra on CAR-T research that uses antibodies from Andean llamas to improve attacks on multiple myeloma.

Operación Sonrisa Ecuador and the Health Ministry will hold a free surgery campaign from July 22 to 25 at Hospital Regional Vicente Corral Moscoso, with evaluations scheduled first for July 22.

Gualaceo surgeon Jorge Bravo López directed a robotic telesurgery between Gualaceo and Harbin, China, across more than 35,000 kilometers, setting a Guinness record for the longest-distance remote surgical intervention recorded so far.

A University of Cuenca research project is testing SISA, a mobile app, website, and AI assistant designed to improve HPV screening follow-through among women in local parishes.

FASEC and Hospital Santa Ines renewed a five-year agreement to support palliative care in Cuenca. The foundation says its unit has capacity for 25 patients and is the only palliative-care unit in the Austro.