Holguín: health system maintains services despite US blockade
- Written by Lourdes Pichs Rodríguez
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Holguín´s health system is implementing measures to ensure the continuity of medical services in the face of the intensified US blockade against the Caribbean island.
In a special appearance on local TV, the general director of Health in Holguín, Dr. Julio Yamel Verdecia Reyes, explained that general services are preserved by concentrating resources where most needed and ensuring basic services to the population.
He said that all primary and secondary care institutions remain open, strengthening the Family Doctor Program, outpatient consultations, reducing hospital stays, and securing ambulances for emergencies.
Epidemiological control and in-person medical guards are protected; these temporary measures avoid sacrificing care for the vulnerable.
Elective surgeries are postponed, but emergencies, urgencies, and life-threatening cases continue; hemodialysis prioritizes 205 patients, starting with hard-to-reach areas in five centers.
The Maternal-Child Program hospitalizes term pregnancies from 37 weeks (34 in disadvantaged areas, 32 in Sagua de Tánamo); inter-municipal community outreach is suspended due to fuel shortages but continues locally, with open offices and updates on social media and local media.
The health system in the province will guarantee updated information through the institutional profiles on social networks and in the local media, Verdecia Reyes concluded.
