Director of Japan Cooperation Agency tours Holguín hospitals
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Mr. Tatsuhiro Mitamura, director of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Cuba, toured several Holguín hospitals benefiting from medical equipment and technical advice through this collaboration program in force since 2018.
The Japanese official recognized the quality of Cuban Public Health and its international prestige; however, he stressed the need to renew its technology to a more advanced one.
A purpose in which JICA has contributed with the delivery of diagnostic equipment to early detect cancer diseases and to enable training courses on the prescription of cancer through digital images for Cuban specialists in Japan.
In this regard, the Holguin Territorial Oncology Center, attached to the Vladimir Ilich Lenin University Hospital, received in 2018 a modern high-tech mammogram, which allows the electronic manipulation of the image, replaces the x-ray film and the development process of the conventional mammography.
Other centers benefited in the territory are the Lucía Íñiguez Landín surgical clinic and the pediatric Octavio de la Concepción de la Pedraja hospitals.
Regarding the latter, Dr. Miguel Leyva Tamayo, director of the children's hospital, said that thanks to JICA they have been able to interconnect all the services of the hospital's primary network (conventional X-ray equipment, telecommanded table and tomograph) with the emergency room and the seriously ill care room, among other areas.
"A digitalization that impacts favorably in a more agile and direct attention to our children," Leyva said.
Regarding his tour of the Holguín health institutions, Tatsuhiro Mitamura said he was very happy with the good use, care and maintenance of the donated equipment.
Mitamura added that this collaboration is not limited only to the delivery of equipment, but also to the training of professionals for the employment and maintenance of the new technology implemented through collaboration.
The Japanese organization, during the two years of presence in the Island, has benefited another 31 health institutions in the country with medical equipment, including endoscopes, mammography, X-ray equipment and tomographs.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency contributes with dissimilar projects to developing countries, such as Cuba. On the Island they also take part in other areas of utmost importance for social development, such as the production of rice and basic grains, transport, energy and the environment.
