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The increase in admission capacities, with the opening of the A Pregnant Room, in the Roberto Rodríguez Provincial General Teaching Hospital, in the municipality of Morón, benefits pregnant women from the northern and central areas of the province of Ciego de Ávila, and favors compliance with the Maternal-Infant Care Program (PAMI).

The former Surgical Specialties room, now destined to care for pregnant women, has 32 capacities, thus completing the 60 required one for the Obstetrics Gynecology service, Dr. Reinerio Rubio Rojas, deputy director of PAMI at that health institution, explained.

In the six compartments, patients will be distributed according to their pathologies: diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension and other infections associated with pregnancy, except respiratory diseases that, according to the protocols established by the COVID-19 pandemic, will receive care in other rooms, he detailed.

The opening aids pregnant women from the municipalities of Chambas, Bolivia, Florencia, Ciro Redondo and Primero de Enero, in addition to the territory where this health center is located; the rest will receive assistance at the Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital, located in the city of Ciego de Ávila, Rubio Rojas said.

In this place, six professionals, experienced and new ones, will provide services, with the aim that the former doctors interact with the new generations of specialists to contribute to their training, he added.

Gerardo Morales López, brigade chief of the Ciego de Ávila Construction Company, highlighted that this space underwent a general restoration: carpentry changes, veneers, covers, toilets, sinks, and hydraulic, sanitary and electrical networks.

Since 2008, his work team has intervened in numerous tasks to improve conditions in that medical institution, including the construction of the Molecular Biology Laboratory and the renovation of other specialized rooms, he stressed.

The recovery of the clinical furniture made it possible to reduce the costs of the investment. Moreover, it will ensure the well-being of pregnant women, companions (in cases that require it) and medical personnel, hospital executives emphasized.

In this space, there will be hot water, a service extended to other areas of admission, such as International Medical Attention, Surgery, Intermediate Therapy, and the Base of the Intensive Medical Emergency Service, based on the installation of solar heaters.

When leaving the new income room inaugurated this Saturday, Carlos Luis Garrido Pérez, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Party, highlighted the achievements in the context of the pandemic, despite the economic and financial tensions in the country, favored by the upsurge of the US blockade against Cuba.

He insisted that changes in the infrastructure should be proportional to the increase in professionalism and the ability to take advantage of resources, in order to raise the quality of patient care, with the sensitivity and humanism characteristic of Public Health personnel.

Garrido Pérez exhorted the people of Avila to comply, with responsibility and discipline, the hygienic-sanitary measures to avoid the contagion and spread of the coronavirus, which will facilitate the control of the disease and the progressive return of the hospital centers to their normal operation.

Rulexis Almeida Díaz, administrative deputy director of the Moronense hospital, specified that the sustainability program includes constructive actions, repairs in the Kitchen area, the assembly of cold chambers to store food and medicine, and the repair of doors, windows and shutters.

In addition, the assembly of air conditioners, the location of oxygen concentrators, the renovations in the outpatient areas and the recovery of the pumping system to ensure stability and pressure in the water supply, he said.

The acquisition of modern medical equipment allowed expanding the capacities to care for seriously ill patients, in the midst of a complex epidemiological situation, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which in the months of July and August had the province of Ciego de Ávila, particularly Morón, as the epicenter in the country.