There is a complete health care network covering the whole country: family doctor-clinic-polyclinic-hospital, each Cuban would enjoy free medical services. Pregnant woman could regularly receive check in the hospital and having baby also in the hospital. Children are vaccinated against 13 preventabla diseases and benefit whole life. According to the statistics, Cuban child mortality rate is only 6.4%, Cuban's life expectancy is 75 years.

Cuban medicine researching has attained significant achievement in dealing with HIV(Aids),and its preventive and quarantine-ambulatory methods are highly regarded as effective by the international scientific community. Seropositive and AIDS patients indices were considered to be quite low for the country's population, as compared with other areas and countries in the world. Cuban research scientists have produced a potential prophylactic recombinant-type vaccine against AIDS. This vaccine is now undergoing a new testing phase and has undeniable encouraging perspectives.

Now, 62624 doctors were reported to exist in Cuba, one doctor per 203 inhabitants, one nurse per 133 inhabitants. Advanced medical instruments and outstanding scientific technology make Cuba famous both in the Latin America and in the world.
    

The need for foreign currency has resulted in some health-care resources being diverted to "health tourism." Annually over 5,000 people travel to Cuba to take advantage of specialized health services including plastic surgery, orthopedics, neurological restoration, and stress. Cuba also has many mineral and medicinal hot springs as well as brines and muds used for curative effects. Several existing spa facilities are currently being restored and remodeled into treatment centers for tourists.