Scientific and technological information in Cuba does not stop despite the epidemiological situation facing our country.
Las Tunas.- With a significant increase each week, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA, in Spanish), together with each of its affiliated institutions and provincial systems, brings new considerations to this fight against the COVID-19 and encouraging results that gather information, innovation and successful research related to Health.
The Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (IDICT) does not escape this reality, which in times of the new coronavirus does much in favor of the battle that the country is waging.
As reported by the national media, the director-general of this institution, Master of Science Ceferino Julio Santarén Suárez, "scientific and technological information in times of pandemic does not stop, proof of this are the technological scientific observatories, where they are evaluated, analyzed; and they monitor tendencies of countries and regions and it is what is done every day in the report of the Ministry of Public Health, to expose the figures related to the disease in the world.”
He also stated that "the observatory, in collaboration with its metric homolog of the coronavirus, located at the University of Pinar del Río, makes all these figures available to society through infographics published on social networks and institutional sites."
The IDICT is one of the centers belonging to the Agency for Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies (AENTA), and thanks to its studies, the chosen variables by the observatories are measured, in order to know the behavior of this disease and subsequently contribute to a recovery strategy.
These results are also possible thanks to the Technological Information and Management Centers (CIGET) present throughout the national territory. As reported to 26Digital, by the Master of Science María de Jesús Lozano Ávila, director of CIGET Las Tunas, “in this crisis it is essential to support research and innovation activity for decision-making in key branches of national security such as food production and health," she said.
At the same time, the director explained that "the CIGET has the duty, and more so nowadays, to collect and make available to companies and other sectors the immense research heritage, generated in scientific institutions and that are duly validated, which are guidelines for solving emerging situations, such as the one our country is experiencing today.”
Together with CITMA in the territory, this scientific entity is part of a working group that, in support of the agriculture of the province, creates strategies and synergies with the aim of incorporating science and technology into agricultural production, later becoming in more food for the population.
According to Lozano Ávila, “following the sanitary measures established by the authorities in the country, the work of the Center with the business sector against the virus does not stop either. Currently the services are maintained with two companies, the Constructive Maintenance, where various management systems are completed and in the Business Group of Commerce, with the design of the Quality Management System.”
The directive reported that the commission with the Technological Innovation magazine, support for valuable research of the scientific developments that remain in improvement, and continues the generation of content for the Ecured collaborative online encyclopedia, is not abandoned.
"Others, of this group, work to guarantee the main activities such as economic closures, Human Resources, the vitality of the center and information supplements, despite the existence of the pandemic in the national territory," she concluded.
