Aware of the challenges faced by the sector due to the limited availability of material resources, but committed to the search for alternatives to achieve quality services, health workers in Las Tunas held the Second Provincial Conference of the Union of the sector, which initiated the process at this level in the country.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Dr. Reynol García Moreira, Deputy Minister of Public Health, in an exchange with the trade unionists of the branch, said that the Ministry is committed to solving vital issues such as dissatisfaction with wages, an issue that is currently undergoing a rigorous analysis and will have a solution in the future, without egalitarianism, according to individual performance.

"We are currently engaged in fundamental lines of work and one of them is the attention to human resources, due to the disengagement of several professionals, and from the point of view of their rescue - the vice-minister insisted. To this end, it is vital to create a working group to analyze the real situation of the workers, bearing in mind that the seed of humanism and the values instilled in them by the system are still latent in them".

García Moreira also addressed the need to materialize the reorganization of the services, to promote strategies to revitalize, compact, or regionalize them to guarantee their sustainability under the current conditions. He insisted on the development of specialties to improve the quality of services, in line with the potential of the territory.

He also emphasized the obligation to attend to international collaborators, with the deference they deserve due to the prestige they have worldwide and the individual sacrifice of each one of them. He pointed out that today Cuba needs to strengthen the system from the academic doctoral training and the strengthening of the most deficient careers.

During the event, Dr. Santiago Badía González, secretary-general of the Health Workers Union, acknowledged the meritorious performance of the union and its achievements, such as having the third-best infant mortality rate in the country and the improvement of the Family Doctor and Nurse Program.

In a meeting characterized by debate and consensus, issues related to the work of the labor movement were analyzed. Emphasis was placed on the stimulation of workers; excellence in training, services, and research; as well as labor conditions and guarantees, moonlighting, payments for biological risks, and the Labor Code.

Under the slogan "United and committed to the health of the people", the participants discussed in depth how the union should influence the better development of the sector and the territories. The call was to achieve individualized attention to workers and to know their realities and expectations.

Karianna Pérez Rodríguez was ratified as secretary of the Provincial Health Union, as were the members of the current secretariat. The delegates of the territory to the 2nd National Conference to be held in Havana next December were also presented.

The meeting was attended by the member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Las Tunas (PCC), Manuel Pérez Gallego; the governor of the territory, Jaime Chiang Vega; the secretary-general of the Cuban Workers Federation, Odalis Batista Pérez, and officials of the sector.