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New Actions Favor the Disabled in Holguin

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sillasPhoto: ACNThe delivery of 300 sets of metal bands for wheelchairs stands out among the actions to increase the quality of life of patients with severe disabilities, whose condition require these means to go places.
 
These components are used as mooring mechanisms and mainly benefit patients with disabilities from Moa, Mayarí, Frank País, Sagua de Tánamo and Cueto, municipalities of the Holguin Turquino Plan.
 
Sorilín López, president of the provincial branch of the Cuban Association for People with Physical and Motor Disabilities (ACLIFIM), said to the ACN news agency that the components ensure greater safety for the disabled and facilitate transit through areas of difficult access or architectural barriers.
 
The program, she said, gives priority to patients with cerebral palsy, quadriplegia and paraplegia and also includes the repair of wheelchairs, if possible.
 
As part of the strategy to contribute to the social inclusion of this sector of the population, made up of more than two thousand people, health care centers of the northeastern territory provide specialized attention to persons with disabilities, who also receive toilet, cotton and alcohol modules for the treatment of bedsores.
 
In Cuba there are more than 74 000 people with limitations in one or several extremities grouped in the ACLIFIM, whose work aims to contribute to the optimal development of the disabled and contribute to eliminate architectural barriers.
 
This association has in Holguin with more than seven thousand members grouped into 14 base sections.