Las Tunas, (Main Writing Tiempo21).- The Cuban science manufactures medications that don't damage the ozone layer, as part of the effort to reduce or to substitute the so-called dangerous substances by nobler gases, to fulfill the Montreal Protocol, signed in 1985.

Medications like the salbutamol and the fluticasona for asthmatic or people with severe breathing illnesses, without the use of chlorfluorocarbons, are manufactured in the Island, as it was known in a national meeting of specialists in ozone, underway in this city, in which was also known that Cuba developed with successes in the last 10 years, 39 actions of cooperation projects.

A wire from the Cuban News Agency (ACN) quotes the declarations of doctor Nelson Espinosa, director of the Technical Office of Ozone, of the Ministry of Science Technology and Environment, who meant the importance of the elimination of chlorfluorocarbons (CFC), for their high potential for the destruction of the protective shield of the life, and asserted that the absence of CFC forced the plant of industrial aerosols into one of technology free of this substance.

The Montreal Protocol found in the Caribbean nation great receptiveness by the political and government authorities and the population in general, which has been well educated by the media, in schools and labor centers.

This agreement has propitiated the development of more than 5, 200 projects in 140 countries, decisive factor to contribute to stop the deterioration of the ozone layer.

In Cuba, near one million people, with illnesses of ophthalmology, neurodegenerative and orthopedic, among others, have been favored with ozone therapy treatments since the beginning of their application, in 1986.

At the moment, the country has more than 56 ozone therapy units, all located in centers of health that are part of the National Network of Ozone Therapy, which will reach other hospitals and policlinics in the Island.

Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino

.Cuban News Agency

.Latin American News Agency