In the easternmost Cuban province, there is a commitment to primary health care (PHC) with access for all people, based on the political will of the Government, which has been a key strategy during four decades with the implementation and improvement of the Family Doctor and Nurse health program.
The territory has 22 health areas and 582 Clinics, spaces that are cornerstones of Public Health for the promotion of healthy lifestyles, highlighted Doctor Yuleisis de la Cruz Carmenate, specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine and Head of the PHC in the province.
In the facebook post of Sociedad Médica y Familiar (SOCUMEFA), they high:
The Scientific Conferences and Pre-Congress Events of Family Medicine that have been successfully developed in each of the provinces and municipalities of the country, have shown that Research in Primary Health Care in Cuba is being increasingly developed and consolidated.
Primary health care has constituted, in the Cuban health system, the main scene. This will achieve quality Medical Care for our population. SOCUMEFA advances and will continue to advance, because simply the Primary Health Care professionals in Cuba, where our courageous doctors and nurses are working, will always be at the service of the people, the Party and the Revolution.
Cuba’s goal to provide medical care to its entire population was the premise that sustained the basic health program established at the community level during the early years of the Revolution.
Doctors continuously assess patients’ risk factors, based on family genetics and social factors, taking into account the initial evaluation to classify them into four groups: healthy patients; those at risk; those who suffer from a chronic disease; and the disabled.
As the main results obtained in Cuba with the family medicine model,the doctors and nurses can organize health promotion and disease prevention measures, focused on changing lifestyles and avoiding risk factors, health services brought closer to the community, even the hard-to-reach-places, they can easily carry out immunization coverage of 98.7% of all children under one year of age, against nine diseases, early identification of more than 95% of pregnant women before the first trimester, among other action, thanks to this type of community program.
