For two days, the Division General Ramón Pardo Guerra, Chief of the National Civil Defense Council, visited the municipalities Baracoa, Caimanera and Guantanamo, where he insisted on perfecting early surveillance systems in the face of imminent atmospheric phenomena and they should therefore be in compliance with the studies of dangers, vulnerabilities and risks, which are the guarantee from the disaster prevention system and a way to avoid the loss of human lives and the country’s resources and property.
During his tour in Guantanamo, the Hero of the Republic of Cuba, also held a meeting with the highest authorities of the Party and the Government in the province, and verified the measures they adopted to face the recent heavy rains, the recovery work, as well as such as the current epidemiological situation in the territories, which called for strengthening efforts to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito, after the rains.
In Baracoa, Pardo Guerra began his visit to the place where the new factory of ice cream and other byproducts is being built, a work that will allow moving the current ice-cream factory downtown to the industrial zone of Nibujón, and thus prevent any casualty.
At the Chocolate Factory Rubén David Suárez Abella, he was interested in how to obtain different chocolate products, the necessary raw materials, and risk and disaster reduction plans.
He also visited the oxygen plant, installed at the Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja hospital, with the capacity for the production of 123 balloons in 24-hour shifts.
He shared with members of the Administration Council and directors of municipal organizations of Baracoa, where he evaluated risk and disaster prevention plans and the importance of paying attention to early surveillance systems. And he held similar meetings with the highest authorities of the Party and the Government of the Guantánamo and Caimanera municipalities.
In Caimanera town, he visited an area where homes are being built for families affected by previous climate events, the waste treatment plant and in the town of Hatibonico he paid tribute to the memory of the late Army Corps General, Sixto Batista Santana.
At the end of his visit to the province, the head of the National Civil Defense Council arrived at the site where a slaughterhouse and medium-sized industry for poultry processing is being built, which belong to the Guantanamo poultry enterprise, and at the University of Guantanamo, he learned about the work of the specialists and students from the Center for Integrated Project and Disaster Risk Management for the Sustainable Development of the eastern region of Cuba, an institution of which he expressed “much of its potential and knowledge must be integrated into the country’s civil defense system.”
Translated by Liubis Balart Martínez
