Holguín: New hospital room benefits children with severe disabilities
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The Holguín pediatric hospital “Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja” expands its medical services to children with severe disabilities with the reopening of one of its rooms after undergoing a major renovation process that included the installation of modern technologies for the benefit of the mother and child care program.
Milagros Hernández, a specialist in physical therapy and rehabilitation, said to the ACN that the room will benefit children with static lesions in the central nervous system such as cerebral palsy and neurodegenerative diseases.
She stressed that these conditions are added infants with head trauma that cause hemiplegia among its sequelae, as well as patients with intensive neonatology therapy, which begin the rehabilitation program after diagnosis.
This room, with a capacity of 20 beds, will allow intensive and continuous treatment and interconsultation with other specialties such as orthopedics and neurology, which positively affects a better quality of life for children, said the specialist.
She added that the time of admission depends on the evolution of each patient, evaluated by a multidisciplinary team, which also determines the monitoring by specialists from the health area.
Rodolfo Barzaga Cutiño, provincial rehabilitation official, said that the room will also benefit children from the eastern provinces of Las Tunas, Granma, Guantánamo and Santiago de Cuba.
He indicated that this investment is part of the actions to improve the infrastructure of this health center and the main construction works focused on the replacement of hydrosanitary networks and furniture.
The Holguín pediatric hospital was founded on October 10, 1971 and has 540 beds where specialists and workers are devoted daily to improve medical services despite the impacts caused by the intensification of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba for almost six decades.
The health center provides services in some 35 specialties in areas such as neonatology, intensive and intermediate therapy, care for the seriously ill patient, oncohematology, pediatric and minimal access surgery, neuropediatric trauma and psychology. / ACN
