The president of the event’s organizing committee, Reinaldo Mustelier Bequer, highlighted the large participation of delegates in the meeting and its importance to show the results obtained by Cuban neurologists.

He added that participants were able to learn about Cuba’s latest advances in the study of neurological diseases, interaction with patients and the search of methods to solve problems of the specialty.

Mustelier, who is also the head of the National Group of Neurology, noted that the event has to set the guidelines for the development of these services in the country and it should also serve as an opportunity to hold similar meetings on the topic.

Likewise, Jesus Perez Nellar, vice president of the event, highlighted the favorable moment for neurology in the island, its development since the triumph of the Revolution and the excellent training of over 200 specialists who are currently working nationwide.

Perez Nellar stressed that Cuba has reached world levels in areas such as the treatment of the Parkinson disease and neuro-rehabilitation.

More than 160 delegates participated in the National Congress on Neurology whose program included almost 50 lectures and seven symposiums.