Conference on non-communicable diseases held in Holguín

Since July 1st and until July 20th, the province of Holguin has been holding conferences on the promotion of the Demonstration Areas of non-communicable diseases (NCD).

According to Dr. Juan Carlos Báster Moro, official of the NCD Coordinating Department of the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, these activities include all the assistance levels and integrate medical attention, epidemiology, teaching and research.

“So that during these 20 days in the province activities are carried out in the University of Medical Sciences (UCMHo), in the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology and in the General Directorate of Health, as well as in our demonstration areas that in the case of Holguin, has the responsibility of being demonstration area in the comprehensive management of non-communicable diseases in the teaching polyclinic Alcides Pino Bermudez; for accidents at Manuel Díaz Legrá teaching polyclinic and we have the area of the advanced network of the HEART initiative for diabetes mellitus, located in the Pedro Díaz Coello university polyclinic,” he added.

These actions contribute to the transformations of the comprehensive management for NCDs developed in Cuba, which have been consolidated and have had an outstanding activity since the year 2023. As part of these actions, specific strategies are being developed in the different health institutions to transform their health framework.

Broadly speaking, the Demonstration Areas related to NCDs are a territorial movement based on the promotion and comprehensive approach to certain topics, with the intention of generalizing the best experiences to the rest of the country. They translate into a territorial contribution to the management of topics of interest and priority related to the prevention and control of NCDs, treated with special interest.

This plan, which also includes morning lectures, specialized conferences, the elaboration and dissemination of bulletins and the presentation of circles of interest, welcomes the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Society of Public Health (SOCUSAP), to be celebrated on July 10; the 40th anniversary of the Family Doctor and Nurse Program and the activities for the 71st anniversary of the assaults on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks in Bayamo.

With information from Infomed Holguín / Translated by Radio Angulo