Family doctors and nurses´ offices, rooms for the emergency staff, and hospital rooms are beneficed by the repair and maintenance program for medical facilities carry out in the province of Granma.

Dr. Ciro Estrada, director of the public health in the eastern territory, reported that a budget of more than six million pesos were allocated for the work executions, which will provide a greater comfort for the people assistance in different facilities.

He said that, restoration works are in progress in the Pathological Anatomy Department of the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, provincial university hospital of Bayamo.

As part of the transformation process in the sector, he said, the opening of six family doctors and nurses´ offices in the municipalities of Cauto Cristo, Media Luna and Buey Arriba was approved, with theses the number of such assistance centers will increase to 800 in the province.

These are actually facilities, which have adequate building and environmental conditions, and the human resources for their coming starting up are also guaranteed, he explained.

Likewise, a Geriatrics service and one for Child and Juvenile Psychiatry were authorized at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Hospital of the provincial capital, and Hermanos Cordové Child hospital, in the city of Manzanillo.

Estrada highlighted that, at the end of the first six months of the current year, Granma exhibits positive health indicators, such as a child mortality rate of 1.8, among the best in Cuba.

On the other hand, the number of surgical operations planned exceeded, with more than 30 thousand procedures, while reducing mortality from lethal diseases, and home care assistances and consultations in primary health care have increased, he stressed.

He added that heart diseases and cancer are among the main causes of death in the territory, reason why in this regard the prevention work is reinforced.


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