With five hundred and fifty eight family doctor and nurse's offices, Guantánamo has full coverage of that program created 35 years ago on the initiative of the Leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz.
This network is distributed in urban and difficult-access rural areas, where there are about two hundred and fifty six medical posts of that type, said Katia Ochoa Naples, General Integral Medicine specialist and head of the primary care section of health in the province.
She also stated that among the work projections in the current stage, consultations and field visits, health promotion and prevention activities, as well as diagnostic treatment and to rehabilitate patients are prioritized.
Vaccination campaigns also stand out, a task that allows registering more 95 percent of the inhabitants of the territory that are administered free vaccine against Poliomyelitis, Tetanus, Malaria, Pertussis, Diphtheria, Rubella, Measles, Meningoencephalitis and Congenital Rubella Syndrome, among other diseases that were very common before the triumph of the Revolution.
From the beginning more than three decades ago, the Family Doctor and Nurse Program in Guantanamo helps to prevent diseases, maintain health indicators in tune with developed countries and to validate Cuba since 2015 as the first nation without transmission of HIV and congenital syphilis from a mother to her newborn.