It was not by chance that on January 4, four decades ago, the Family Doctor and Nurse Program was created, but out of an imperative need to extend medical care to the remotest corners in Cuba.
This creation, which took place thanks to the genius of Fidel Castro Ruz, with the purpose of turning the program into the essential pillar of Primary Health Care, takes place in the midst of a deep process of transformations.
Among its objectives is to rescue the optimal functioning of the medical offices and especially the stability of the personnel working there. It is destined to become the patient’s gateway to the healthcare system.
Therefore, one of the main challenges is to improve its work, based on key components such as management, organization, operation and stability of the medical and nursing staff.
In this last indicator, it is a permanent goal to guarantee the coverage of the personnel working in the more than 1,150 medical offices throughout Holguin.
In recent years, sustained efforts have been made to improve the infrastructure of these facilities and a continuous system of repair and maintenance has been maintained, in view of the deterioration that many of them show.
Based on the aspiration to bring medical services closer to the communities, emphasis is placed on strengthening the performance of the Basic Work Groups, headed by specialists in General Comprehensive Medicine.
The offices should be the place from where the patients’ medical history is best known, hence the need to work systematically to guarantee medical care. Another challenge that lies ahead for the personnel working there is to increase the resoluteness at that level, the best way to preserve that great legacy of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution.
The improvement in the quality of health indicators and, therefore, the population’s satisfaction with the services will depend on the promptness with which the problems affecting the operation of the clinics are solved.
Thus, by 2024, the Public Health sector will be responsible for the operation of this program, so that nearly 70 percent of the population’s health problems will be solved in medical offices, in compliance with the principle of preventing diseases and avoiding their complications.
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