Cuban medicine promotes comprehensive care in Haiti
Of the patients assisted by Cuban doctors, more than three thousand were surgically treated, and of these one thousand 500 with more complex surgeries, including more than a thousand amputations inevitable, said a note from the news agency Latina.
Speaking to Cuban news media, Dr. Carlos Alberto Garcia, a member of the coordination of the Cuban brigade in Haiti said that "the strategy is to provide the most comprehensive care possible to those affected."
For them, the emergency did not end, then prevalent respiratory infections, diarrhea and other conditions specific to the complex scenario.
'We still think that the emergency is present, and in another dimension, otherwise we have no great emergency and perhaps from the surgical point of view, from the early days but now seems to also address the emergence of certain diseases that are own the moment, "Garcia said.
According to the doctor, who provides comprehensive care to victims Cuba includes health promotion, curative and rehabilitative care.
Currently, Cuban doctors providing services in three health institutions in Puerto Principe, and in four hospitals.
In addition, professionals from the island ensure the operation of five Integral Diagnostic Centers (CDI), located relatively close to the capital, which ensures medical coverage to residents in place, and also to patients who have moved toward those areas. Five other IDUs are in various stages of implementation in various departments. Are forecast to start paying more advanced services in the coming days.
IDUs are the result of a joint Cuba-Venezuela, are equipped with diagnostic equipment of high technology and are able to enter 20 or 25 people.
Nearly three weeks after a massive earthquake, the Cuban medical mission account with 938 employees, over 50 percent of them scattered in various parts of the capital. Of the total, 380 are Haitian doctors trained in Cuba.
Since last Saturday was activated rehabilitation service for patients, which is provided in six health centers, specialty offered no Haitian public institutions before the earthquake.
The direction of the Cuban mission believes that the string of people with multiple injuries that left in its wake the quake, this type of care will increasingly popular among the citizenry, despite his lack of background in state hospitals.
Moreover, conducting an assessment of affected areas who are not receiving appropriate care and other locations where patients may have been displaced in order to reach primary care and, if necessary with other hospitals.
'The strategy is to strengthen the focus within the country, in correspondence with the Haitian government's own strategy, which estimates the number at half a million people displaced, "said Garcia.
This comprehensive approach includes the work of a team of psychologists and psychiatrists who work in the care of victims of the tragedy, to improve the mental health of the citizens, who evidently was badly damaged.
The team of experts scheduled to begin in the next days activities with children and young people, aimed at recovering as much as possible from the psychological point of view.
Moreover, since 20 thousand people were vaccinated with tetanus toxoid. Only last Sunday, were immunized two thousand 300 citizens, mostly in makeshift camps that mushroomed after the earthquake in parks and squares.
Amid the calamities generated by seismic, Cuban doctors have had the pleasant task of conducting more than 280 parts and half of them by Caesarean section, practiced mostly in hospitals.
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