With the opening in Guantanamo of sixteen new family doctor and the nurse’s offices, the primary health care of hundreds of inhabitants of rural and mountainous areas of the territory, which had to move from very distant places to receive that service, is guaranteed.
That was announced by Dr. Yuleisi De la Cruz Carmenate, head of the primary health care session in the province, who explained that these properties only had graduates in nursing and currently have specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine, mostly responsible for attending to two hundred inhabitants, even though politics demands up to three hundred or more.
She added that this initiative, conceived by the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, more than three decades ago, is developed in Guantanamo with the universal coverage of the entire population from a network made up of 564 offices distributed in 37 basic work groups and 22 polyclinics.
Similarly, the family doctor and nurse program is distinguished by immunization campaign to more than 95 percent of the inhabitants of the territory and comprehensive actions aimed at health promotion, disease prevention and comprehensive care, among other indicators in tune with developed countries.