Holguin develops psychosocial study on disability

The Health System in the province of Holguin started this October the 2nd a new psychosocial study for the benefit of people with disabilities, the only one of its kind in Cuba so far.

Disability, wheelchair

The research will allow the promotion and updating of policies to continue expanding accessibility and inclusion of these citizens in areas such as cultural improvement, access to employment and comprehensive rehabilitation.

The study will be carried out at the University of Medical Sciences, where specialists will be trained in this evaluation and will take into account living conditions, family relationships, among other parameters, Sandra Bárbara Gurris Hidalgo, head of the program at the Provincial Public Health Directorate, told ACN.

The process will also include the clinical and functional evaluation of this vulnerable population group, which will allow for an update on treatments and rehabilitation therapies, she explained.

Disability, wheelchair

She stressed that the health areas will also be involved and organizations such as the Cuban associations of the physically and motor handicapped, the deaf and the blind and visually impaired, which group together more than 7,000 people with these diagnoses in the eastern territory, will also participate.

She stressed that health areas will also be involved and organizations such as the Cuban associations of the physically and motorically handicapped, the deaf and the blind and visually impaired will participate, which bring together more than 7,000 people with these diagnoses in the eastern territory.

Disability, wheelchair

The province of Holguin also promotes other projects such as the development of dance and theater festivals, the delivery of support means and the learning of handicrafts, which contribute to the self-validism of this sector of the population, one of the priorities within the social programs of the Cuban Revolution.

With information from ACN / Translated by Radio Angulo.