SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Feb 21 (acn) In a visit to Sunday to a hospital in a mountainous town of eastern Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura reiterated the importance of overcoming the challenge of unifying quality and rationalization of resources in the health care sector.Machado Ventura talked with the staff and patients of the Giraldo Aponte hospital of the municipality of Guama in the Sierra Maestra mountain range about important aspects of the health sector.">SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Feb 21 (acn) In a visit to Sunday to a hospital in a mountainous town of eastern Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura reiterated the importance of overcoming the challenge of unifying quality and rationalization of resources in the health care sector.Machado Ventura talked with the staff and patients of the Giraldo Aponte hospital of the municipality of Guama in the Sierra Maestra mountain range about important aspects of the health sector.">

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Machado Ventura Stresses Cuba's Health Care Challenges

  • Submitted by: manso
  • 02 / 22 / 2011

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Feb 21 (acn) In a visit to Sunday to a hospital in a mountainous town of eastern Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura reiterated the importance of overcoming the challenge of unifying quality and rationalization of resources in the health care sector.

Machado Ventura talked with the staff and patients of the Giraldo Aponte hospital of the municipality of Guama in the Sierra Maestra mountain range about important aspects of the health sector. "We are not going to give up on what we have already achieved; we are going to keep it and even make it better but only by being more rational," Machado Ventura told them in reference to the need to make better use of material and human resources.

The Cuban vice president stressed the importance of having just the required number of workers on each area and that every element within the health system (family doctor's offices, policlinics and hospitals) meet their functions.

Machado Ventura added that people should learn more about public health costs, as recently tackled by Granma newspaper, so that they understand the efforts made by the government to maintain the achievement of the Revolution of providing free health care.

He took Guama's hospital with beds including 30 in a maternity home as a symbol of the social progress in the coastal and mountainous municipality currently of 30,000 inhabitants.

The hospital, with 22 family doctor's office scattered around the area,provides hospitalization, therapy, pediatrics, and internal medicine and obstetrics services. It is expected to offer shortly nephrotic treatment,physical therapy and natural medicine treatments.

Machado Ventura noted that before 1959, there were 23 cemeteries along the coast of Guama, which shows the high mortality rate of the area as a result of the lack of doctors and means to take sick people to hospitals.

At present, all the nurses and the technical staff working at the hospital are from Guama, and in three years, all the doctors in the facility are expected to be locals as well.

Source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/121189

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