In correspondence with the current stage of the country, the province's health authorities are strengthening measures to control and deal with the new coronavirus, which in Cuba is already affecting 35 people.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- Viviana Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Health Director in Las Tunas, affirms that the different political and mass organizations and entities accompany the sector to face the contagion and transmissibility of the disease in this pre-epidemic stage.
The first moments, she said, has been characterized by training, led by the University of Medical Sciences. There they prepare the personnel of this sphere and the workers of the institutions of other fields. Likewise, health hearings are held in the workplaces and in communities. "In a short time our people have enlisted to face this disease that has a high lethality."
Gutiérrez highlighted active investigations among the most important measures, since the acute respiratory infections are present in the communities.
The activity is carried out by more than 1,700 students and family doctors and nurses, plus community groups. Each of the patients diagnosed during the investigations go to the medical offices, Emergencies and they are given a differentiated follow-up.”
All this research process is carried out in the 550 family medical and nursing offices; as older adults are the most vulnerable to suffer from the new coronavirus and complications. "The province has 11,000 elderly people, an important number that requires the support of the population for their protection and timely evaluation."
Currently, more than 140 people, from various countries, remain under surveillance in health areas. Once they start with respiratory symptoms, they are considered as suspects of Covid-19 and are admitted to isolation centers; and foreigners are referred to the Holguín province.
According to the latest regulations, Cuban residents arriving from other nations must comply with a 14-day isolation period and here they take the necessary measures to ensure strict compliance with the provision.
The provincial director of Health asked the people of Las Tunas to join in this great battle to support family doctors in the timely entry of possible patients. "We await an energetic response from our people to this event, one of the largest in recent years," she said.
The main tasks also include caring for Health workers, who with enormous willingness step forward to contain the disease. "In the isolation center and hospitals there are the means of protection and thus avoid the infection of the professionals from Las Tunas," she concluded.
