The province of Holguin is represented by 25 health professionals at the III National Congress on Family Medicine, which is being held between November 1 and 3, at Havana Convention Palace, as part of the activities to celebrate the four decades of the Family Doctor and Nurse Practitioner Program.
According to the head of the Department of Primary Health Care (PHC) in the Provincial Health Directorate, Dr. Elizabet Bichara Bauzá, “our delegation is represented by eight municipalities and also brings professionals from the University of Medical Sciences of Holguín, provincial directors, the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, while these professionals come from different institutions, among them a representation of the Basic Health Teams, family doctors and nurses, municipal health directors and deputy directors, chiefs and supervisors of the Basic Work Groups, specialists in General Comprehensive Medicine, deputy directors and directors of polyclinics, among others.
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During the scientific sessions, we dealt with topics mainly related to PHC operation, both at the level of clinics and polyclinic services. We also evaluated rurality, with emphasis on everything related to the functioning of primary health care in rural areas and the state plan Turquino Plan (for mountain people) and other elements where rehabilitation, stomatology and other areas belonging to primary health care are also incorporated”.
This great event, sponsored by the Cuban Society of Family Medicine, is the space where outstanding professionals of the specialty in the territory defend thematic lines such as maternal and child care, population aging, communicable diseases, the functioning of the different institutions that make up Primary Health Care, the training of human resources and the participation of Comprehensive General Practitioners in international medical collaborations.
Undoubtedly, this is a space for analysis and reflection on specific health issues, which deserve a better functioning, the opportunity to propose and evaluate programs, strategies and results obtained in the application of the program and in the current process of improvement through which it is passing.
In the province of Holguín, Primary Health Care is integrated by 1,155 Family Doctor and Nurse offices and 42 teaching polyclinics.
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