The visit of Ernesto Santiesteban Velázquez - First Secretary of the Party - and Governor Julio César Estupiñán Rodríguez to the Post-covid Hospital Complex, located in the Calixto García Polytechnic in Holguín, served for the highest political and government authorities of the province to verify that the positive people' opinion about the services provided are the result of the careful work of the personnel working there.
Santiesteban Velázquez initially spoke with the specialists who manage the pandemic in the province, to learn about the operation of the alternative facility and how they got trained to provide services under unusual conditions.
Known as ITH, the center not only treats patients suffering from covid-19, but also those who suffered from it but are left with different sequelae, as well as other conditions, explained Dr. Juan Carlos Ortiz Sablón, advisor to the facility.
This Post-covid Hospital Complex will assist patients from all over the province, not only from the provincial capital city, as some people think, the doctor clarified.
The ITH, which is dedicated to the rehabilitation of patients who have suffered from covid-19, also intends to contribute to freeing up beds in the large health centers of the provincial capital city, said Dr. Ortiz Sablón.
As the number of covid-19 cases in the province continues to fall, attention will be directed to the patients who have suffered from the disease and have had some condition derived from covid-19, explained the specialist in Internal Medicine.
This school center, now Post-covid Hospital Complex, has become a reference in the care of patients, as corroborated by people' opinion, assured the First Secretary of the Party.
Dr. Ortiz Sablón added that there have been cases of patients who were initially treated at the ITH, and when they were transferred to other hospitals, they have requested their return to this beautiful building complex.
And the fact is that the staff working there strives to care for the patients and to do so with the greatest professionalism in the world, explained the members of the team, where youth is the predominant factor.
It was also known that in each health area of the polyclinics there are multidisciplinary commissions for the attention of all those afflicted with covid-19, which have to classify them according to their problems derived from the disease for their subsequent rehabilitation.
In this regard, the First Secretary pointed out that it should be checked if this is the case in the whole province, lest in some municipality it does not work as it is established.
It should also be noted that, together with the personnel from Holguín, members of the Henry Reeve emergency response brigade have joined the work, who work side by side with their patients.
Many of them were doing international work in other countries and when they were called, they returned to their homeland, and without seeing their relatives, some went to Matanzas and then to Holguin, even others from Qatar directly to this province.
In the ITH everyone has learned, including the new general practitioners, who have learned from the wisdom of the brigadistas of the Henry Reeve contingent, said a nurse from Santiago de Cuba.
This visit has served to recognize the dedication of all the personnel working in the ITH, not only the medical and paramedical, but also the kitchen and cleaning staff, all of them without exception, that is why Ernesto Santiesteban Velázquez, the First Secretary of the Party in the province of Holguín, congratulated them.
In addition, to orient the population in need of post-covid-19 rehabilitation, so that they know that the Cuban Health System has designed not only the attention while suffering from the disease, but also its treatment for the recovery of the discomforts derived from it, emphasized Adrián Rojas, member of the Provincial Party Bureau who is in charge of the sphere, as a graduate of Doctor in Medicine.
The Cuban Health System, even without all the desired resources due to the blockade, the epidemiological and economic situation of the country and the world, has been able to overcome obstacles and is making progress in the control of Covid-19.