Puerto Padre’s government indicated to strengthen the measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Tuesday, the Government in the municipality of Puerto Padre, in Las Tunas, gave new details about the reorganization of services at the Guillermo Domínguez Hospital, which - from this week - will begin to care for COVID-19 high-risk suspected patients and those with acute respiratory infections from the hole province; at the same time, indications were given to strengthen epidemiological surveillance in neighborhoods and rural communities.

Blood gas equipment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna General Teaching Hospital

It is blood gas equipment. It allows the diagnosis, among others, of respiratory insufficiencies, severe dehydration, or the follow-up of patients with dialysis emergencies in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna General Teaching Hospital, in the province of Las Tunas. This, like other equipment, is limited in its value in use due to the lack of reagents or spare parts.

The Molecular Biology Laboratory not only contributes to the diagnosis of COVID-19 but represents a milestone for the development of Medical Sciences

If there is a sphere of society that has been affected by the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba, it is Public Health.

Nurses are like "guardian angels."

Some do not like that deep and straight gaze with which they usually accompany the early “good morning” in hospital wards, every time dawn looms through the icy silence of the cubicles. Others become uncomfortable when a "naughty" vein resists and the blood extraction, serum, or intravenous medicine hurts more. At night falls, they give up and are grateful that, in their ways and practices, those angels are willing to calm the wrongs of body and soul.

Fumigation campaign against the Aedes aegypti

“I remember that night when I went to sleep, I felt some strange chills; I covered myself well and I began to think that with the bad luck that lately haunted me, I was capable of having been infected with the COVID-19. At midnight, the fever woke me up, and then I did start to wonder who had gotten me sick, damn it, I don't even leave my house..."