Different days are lived in the Polyclinic 4 de Abril in the Guantanamo City. The new coronavirus calls for a health strategy to its threat and prevent its propagation. .
Upon arrival, a nurse who recieves patients wearing her masks, asks the state of health of each person who comes to the center. This is the first step of the flow chart created to offer its services, especially to those who arrive in with Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs).
Dr. Leonel Castillo Valiente, deputy director of hygiene and epidemiology at the Polyclinic 4 de Abril, tells us how the health service works in times of coronavirus. We observed the ARI and the admission rooms, where COVID-19 suspected patients stay.
He explains about the rapid response of the team made up of a general practicioner, pediatrician, epidemiologist, vector workers, in charge of visiting houses where a situation related to the disease arises.
Yoelis Espinosa is a Specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine, she volunteered to help in the classification of patients arriving at the polyclinic with various respiratory symptoms; She is aware of the risk, but assumes her responsibility with discipline.
Lester and Rachel, young doctors assigned to work at the suspicious cases admissions room set up in that polyclinic in San Justo neighborhood, with the joy and diligence of their years, also show their knowledge and discipline to prevent infections from the new respiratory virus.
Like this community health care center, the remaining 12 polyclinics in the province created specific areas to classify, provide primary care, and temporarily isolate patients who may arrive with clinical respiratory symptoms or suspected transmission of the new coronavirus. The Health Strategy deployed in the eastern territory to prevent COVID-19, even without any confirmed cases in Guantanamo.