The member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and its first secretary in Granma, Federico Hernández Hernández, and the president of the Provincial Assembly of the People’s Power, Manuel Santiago Sobrino, opened several works of social benefit in the coastal municipalities of the Granma province.
The former barracks of the rural guard of Niquero, in those days den of abusers and murderers, the Revolution turned into a hospital to provide medical services to the inhabitants of these places.
In that hospital, an intensive care room to the seriously ill patients with a capacity of six beds, new medical equipment and supplies was inaugurated by the highest authorities of the province of Granma.
Also in that municipality, the same place where the expeditionaries of the Granma yacht landed in 1956, nowadays the inhabitants enjoy of a new dinner, a facility for selling food prepared at very low cost and a restaurant specializing in sea food.
IN SEVILLA COMMUNITY
As part of the social works that are inaugurated in this southeast province on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, a new outdoor fitness gym was inaugurated in the community of Seville, in Pilón, to which almost 4 thousand people have access of that area.
New option for healthy outdoor recreation, the facility will also provide services to the students of the Mártires de Sevilla and Ignacio Pérez schools, both in the same community.
MORE ATTENTION FOR GRANDPARENTS IN MEDIA LUNA
In Media Luna, birthplace of the heroine Celia Sánchez Manduley, six families that lived in bad conditions due to weather adversities received new houses, an advance of the 30 dwellings that are built at the former asphalt plant, unproductive for years.
La Ideal grocery store was in danger of collapse due to its construction problems. Therefore a new facility was built with the participation of neighbors just in front of the previous one.
Finally, the former sugar house was turned into a new elderly housing, now to serve 45 elderly people and the possibility of increasing that figure in coming future.
There a qualified staff offers company and pleasant stay to the patients in one of the municipalities that according to statistics presents high levels of population aging.
EPILOGUE
The Cuban government prioritizes attention to the problems of citizens as a premise to implement its citizen participation policies.
In that sense, the new works at the disposal of the inhabitants of the municipalities of Niquero, Media Luna and Pilón are a sample of progress possibilities in a strategic direction of the Revolution.
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