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Health sector extends community actions in Holguín

The promotion of health in the community stands out among the actions developed by this sector in the province of Holguin, for the prevention of diseases and the attention to vulnerable neighborhoods.

In settlements of Holguin city, like Alcides Pino, educational and integrating talks and field visits are carried out, which contribute to dispense these groups and stop the spread of diseases such as dengue, common during the summer months.

These interventions also include the reinforcement of epidemiological surveillance through sanitation actions, active screening and the delivery of brochures and leaflets on quality of life, highlighted Sandra Gurris, specialist of the General Directorate of Public Health.

Likewise, the population is provided with guidelines on food preservation, patient behavior in the event of fever symptoms and the follow-up of people with disabilities, the elderly and infants, she said.

At the same time, the extension of inter-consultation of specialties, including neurology, orthopedics, cardiology and internal medicine, whose professionals go to those settlements, she said.

The initiative is part of the family doctor and nurse improvement programs, one of the priorities of the Ministry of Public Health in the country, to improve doctor-patient relations and increase community outreach.

Holguín promotes other actions in the attention to vulnerable neighborhoods, among them the repair of medical offices in rural and hard-to-reach areas, the control of teenage girls of childbearing age and the affiliation of children with disabilities to organizations dedicated to this purpose.

With information from the Cuban News Agency / Translated by Radio Angulo

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