Holguín, benchmark for health in eastern Cuba
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With the celebration of the Latin American Medicine Day on December 3, Holguín stands as a benchmark for health in eastern Cuba through different centers and services with satisfactory results in improving the quality of life of patients.
More than 40 thousand workers work every day in hospitals, polyclinics and family doctor offices, distributed in the 14 municipalities of the territory, with the defense of life as a fundamental premise.
The social programs implemented by the Cuban Revolution since 1959 are carried out in care centers for vulnerable groups, including the Psychopedagogical Center Modesto Fornaris in the head city, where around 200 people with physical disabilities receive comprehensive rehabilitation.
Health institutions such as the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Hospital, founded by the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz and declared as a symbol of solidarity and fraternity, have services of excellence in obstetric gynecology, assisted reproduction, cardiology and general surgery, among others.
Also, the Regional Neonatology Center and the Territorial Oncology Center, which despite the global economic and health crisis associated with COVID-19, maintain benchmark indicators for survival and the incorporation of new surgical methods and treatment protocols.
On the other hand, the University of Medical Sciences, among those with the highest enrollment in the country, develops various projects focused on environmental education, renewable sources of energy and confronting the new coronavirus, with the involvement of more than four thousand students.
In the communities, emergency rooms, the comprehensive work in vulnerable neighborhoods, the Turquino Plan and the Henry Reeve Brigades, the work of Holguín doctors is also present as guarantor of solidarity and humanism apprehended during academic training.
Latin American Medicine Day is celebrated on December 3, coinciding with the birth of the eminent Cuban scientist Carlos Juan Finlay y Barrés, born in Camagüey in 1833, discoverer of the transmitting agent of yellow fever.
