[NYTr] Cuban Hospital Included In UN Environmental Project

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Cuban Hospital Included In UN Environmental Project

Havana, August 15 (acn) The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 
has included the Guillermo Garcia hospital, in the eastern Cuban 
province of Las Tunas, in a project to promote the reduction of global 
emissions of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS).

The decision is in line with Cuba's observance of the Montreal Protocol 
and other international regulations related to reducing the use of 
chlorofluorocarbons (CFC), which seriously affect the atmosphere and 
threaten life on the planet.

The Cuban hospital has replaced its outdated air conditioners with new 
energy-saving and eco-friendly systems that do not produce CFC.

The UNDP's project is also promoted by the Canadian Environmental 
Agency, several Canadian companies and Cuba's Technical Office on Ozone.

Candido Mena, an environment specialist from Las Tunas, said that, 
beginning in the 1990s, his province has implemented an efficient 
program to progressively eliminate the use of CFS in air conditioners 
and refrigerators.

The ozone depleting substances are responsible for the direct incidence 
of ultraviolet rays into the biosphere that cause skin cancer and other 
diseases. They also negatively affect the vegetative cycle of plants.