Introduction:

climate change is an undeniable reality, with an effect on human beings and healthcare services. Biosafety is a valuable weapon to face the challenges set out to the healthcare services by climate change.

Objective:

to describe the relationships among human beings, climate change and biosafety.

Development:

for years, the effects of climate change on human beings have been warned. Since then, institutions were created in Cuba for the rational use and exploitation of natural resources, as well as for the development of measures to mitigate the effects of climate change. The modifications in the dynamics of the environment, the habitats of the living beings, desertification and drought cause variations in the patterns of behavior of diseases, causing reemergence of some eradicated ones, mutations and new strains of others, turning them into a latent danger for the species. The accomplishment of institutional biosafety and social measures to manage COVID-19 has shown efficiency.

Conclusions:

the compliance of biosafety norms in healthcare institutions has a synergic effect along with Life Task (Tarea Vida), through the control of biological risk. Biosafety standards allow facing the changes in ecosystems and preserving human health, much more in times of COVID-19 pandemic.

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