Holguín health workers return with satisfaction for duty fulfilled
- Written by Lourdes Pichs Rodríguez
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The Holguín health professionals who were in Bolivia and Ecuador have returned to the homeland after writing indelible pages of human solidarity and the fight for the health and well-being of the thousands of patients assisted during their stay in those Latin American countries.
These health workers are pleased to have developed a commendable job in both medical care and teaching, while expressing sadness since they left many patients pending important surgeries or the treatments that only they provided to the humblest population.
At the time of the departure of Cuban collaborators from Bolivia to the Homeland, there were 38 Holguín health workers, among them, Dr. Edilberto Segura Paredes, a specialist in Internal Medicine, who contributed to the health system of that South American nation.
Segura had been providing services for three years in a hospital with coverage of a large sector of the population of the Department of Oruro, in Bolivia, where the health care work alternated with teaching to medical interns and residents in that hospital.
On the events that took place in Bolivia, he said he was dismayed by the situation that are now experiencing the noble and hardworking people he met, because of the de facto actions by de facto government established in that country of great natural wealth.
In the Medical Mission in Ecuador, more than 25 professionals from Holguín provided services at the moment in which that country terminated the health agreements with Cuba.
All of them returned and with that group came the surgeon from the Lucía Íñiguez Landín surgical clinical hospital, Yaniel Cedeño, who was part of the renal transplant team at the Eugenio Espejo public hospital in that country.
“Almost leaving for the Homeland to meet with our families we leave behind friends and coworkers, patients, all of them thanks for sharing with us. Special greeting to the doctors, nephrologists, nurses and residents with whom we share work and friendship in the Nephrology Service of the public hospital Eugenio Espejo,” wrote Yaniel on his Facebook profile shortly before his departure of that country.
From there, the doctor made its people part of the intense work he was carrying out together with colleagues from that health center, the only one of its kind in Ecuador with renal transplant service.
From 2013 to date, 256 such surgeries of that type were performed there, with a survival of 98 percent per year and 94.7 percent at five years, according to the statements of nephrologist Mercedes Herrera upon her arrival to Cuba.
Evelio Martínez Hernández, head of the Department of Medical Collaboration in the Provincial Directorate of Health, acknowledged the fulfillment of the mission of the Holguín health workers, backed by the service sheets, which all have brought to their country.
