When the calendar reaches December 3, Latin American Medicine Day, it is worth highlighting the titanic work of thousands and thousands of workers in the sector in 2023, marked in Cuba by the deficit of medical supplies and drugs. Adverse reaction that basically causes the economic blockade and its 173 additional measures against the Island. And I say titanic because I know the anxiety, the tensions of specialists to snatch life from the clutches of death. However, there are fruits on the tree of life. For example, in Villa Clara at the time of writing these lines, the infant mortality rate was 5 per thousand children born alive, and the maternal mortality rate was zero, indicators that reveal decreases in deaths. This is how Doctor Yandri Alfonso Chang, specialist in Pediatrics, at the head of that program in Villa Clara, told me. The deficiencies also limited the surgical activity of the “Ernesto Che Guevara” Cardiocenter, in Villa Clara, the so-called flagship health center in this central part of the Island. Until November, its experts carried out 204 surgeries, of which 53 were open heart with 95.1% surgical effectiveness and 72 were vascular, with 100% effectiveness. The procedures of the Electrophysiology service, among others, stand out. I cannot ignore the work of the “Arnaldo Milián Castro” Clinical Surgical Hospital, the “Mariana Grajales” Maternal Hospital, and the “José Luis Miranda” Pediatric Hospital, with core action in the maternal-child program, and the interrelationship with family community medicine. Source: CMHW
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