Dr. C. Eiliana Cruz González (center) with other participants from Holguin during the First National Workshop on Comprehensive Surgical Neonatal Care. Photo: Courtesy of the interviewee

Holguin Professional in the National Workshop for Surgical Neonates

Seven Holguin professionals dedicated to the management and care of these patients attended the First National Workshop on Comprehensive Care for Surgical Neonates. According to one of the participants, Dr. C. Eiliana Cruz González, who serves as Head of Nursing at the Octavio de la Concepción de la Pedraja Pediatric Hospital. The province of Holguin was recognized as having the best results in the organization of surgical newborn care.

At this workshop, held recently in Havana, three fruitful scientific sessions were held. Through presentations from each of the participating specialties. Participants shared information on how the care process is carried out for the four main malformations: esophageal atresia, congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Also abdominal wall defects (omphalocele and gastroschisis), and intestinal atresia, added Cruz González.

During the event, under the theme “Neonatal Alliance, Surgery, Anesthesia, Neonatology, and Nursing. An Expert Perspective,” we shared with professionals from each of the three centers that receive complex surgical patients: the William Soler Center in Havana. The Center in Villa Clara; and the Center in Holguin.”

A space was dedicated to discussing breastfeeding and strategies that support the feeding process of newborns. As well as strategies to improve this process, she also noted.

It is estimated that around two percent of all newborns have an anomaly. Newborns requiring surgical treatment are complex patients. Demanding a multidisciplinary team and highly specialized centers for their medical care.
Therefore, at this scientific event, the Ministry of Public Health also held an exchange with the doctor responsible for all the assurance necessary to provide safe, quality care to surgical patients.

It is a firm commitment of the healthcare system to ensure that newborns leave the various Neonatal Surgery centers with the best possible quality of life.

Cruz González expressed satisfaction at having participated in this workshop and confirmed that they have many tasks to accomplish. Moreover as it led to the creation of the Neonatal Surgery Network. Where training will be provided for all the specialties involved in this process.

“There are many actions to be developed, and the Holguin delegation returned eager to work and achieve. Because the province’s leadership in this specialty was recognized there,” he concluded.

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The Holguin delegation to this important event also included Dr. Ana Nastia Tamayo Ortiz, head of the Neonatology Service at the Vladimir Ilich Lenin General University Hospital. Dr. Liliannis Carballo, a first-degree specialist in Neonatology. Dr. Ana Patricia Rivas Naranjo, a specialist in Pediatric Anesthesiology. Mae Aragonesa, Head of Nursing at the Neonatal Service of the Holguin Pediatric Hospital. And Pediatric Surgery specialists Roger Enrique Reynaldo Cejas and Yurislandy Morales Oliva.

The participation of Holguin professionals in high-level training of this nature results in improved quality of care. Greater safety, and improved outcomes for surgical newborns and their families.

Thanks to the advances achieved in Pediatric Surgery, Neonatology, the Regionalization of Surgical Centers, the development of specialties such as Genetics, and the introduction of modern feeding and ventilation techniques. Mortality from congenital malformations has been reduced in Cuba’s Regional Neonatal Surgery Centers over the last three decades.

Maylín Betancourt Verdecia
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