The hustle and bustle of daily life and the complexity of current times marked by shortage or low availability of medicines, high prices of essential commodities, labor or coexistence problems, stressful or tense situations put our mental health to the test every day.
Hence the relevance of the Holguin 2025 Mental Health Symposium, which began on May 14th in the theater of the Vladimir Ilich Lenin University General Hospital, with the purpose of analyzing and exchanging on essential topics to design and implement intervention strategies in the attention of these disorders and their prevention.
According to Dr. Mayra Góngora Herce, president of the Holguin Chapter of the Cuban Society of Psychiatry, “it is of great importance in the current times we are living in where the difficulties that arise cause many disorders in our patients. So much so that an increase in the number of people who come to us can be seen and through this symposium, with the guests we have from Havana, we will acquire more knowledge, exchange and new tools to be able to teach younger people how to help their patients to face the different adversities and situations that appear in everyday life”.
This event, which will last until the 17th, will be attended by about 70 people, including specialists in adult and child psychiatry, residents of both specialties, psychologists, general practitioners, nurses and other mental health professionals and technicians.
Dedicated to the memory of the renowned professor of Psychiatry in the territory, Dr. Victor Urbino Matamoros, this event presents free themes, conferences, courses, workshops, panels and collateral activities such as meetings in health care centers where the specialty of Psychiatry provides services.
In that sense, the also second degree specialist in Psychiatry and Master in mental and community health explained that they visited the Child Psychiatry service of the pediatric hospital Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja, where there was a nice exchange between the professors from Havana, who took with them the experience of how Child Psychiatry works in the province and were very satisfied with the presentation of the work of Child Psychiatry in Holguin.
An important moment within the symposium will be the presentation of the book “El Caballero de París”, scheduled for the 16th, authored by Professor and Doctor in Sciences Luis Calzadilla Fierro, who is a Professor and Consultant of the Faculty of Medical Sciences Calixto García in Havana.
Also attending as guests of honor are Antonio Jesús Caballero Moreno, also from the Calixto García School of Medical Sciences and Dr. Manuel Juárez Salgado, fourth year resident in the specialty of Psychiatry at the Calixto García General Hospital.
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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