SANCTI SPIRITUS HEALTH

Even when it is considered a degenerative and hereditary affection, retinitis pigmentosa does not translate into an ultimate doom, because many patients in Sancti Spiritus suffering from the disease have made it to slow its development.»

Since the beginning of the year, when the process of reorganizing began in Sancti Spiritus, more than 800 health services have been given order to in the Cuban central province. Thus, medical care has reached communities in a more appropriate way.»

For almost two decades, surgeons are being trained at Camilo Cienfuegos Hospital in Sancti Spiritus, but for the first time specialists from the Latin American School of Medicine graduate here. »

By Dayamis Sotolongo Rojas Even if a program for organs transplant and donation is already established in Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba, only kidney and cornea donations are made in the province, the latter being less frequent, carrying out only three as for 2011, which have benefitted four patients.»

By Dayamis Sotolongo Rojas Sancti Spiritus Cardiac Care Unit, located in the Camilo Cienfuegos Provincial Hospital and existing for only a decade in the Cuban central province, continues to grow up. Sleepless nights have translated into rewards: the number of pacemakers has increased; fatalities due to acute myocardial infarctions have diminished. Sancti Spiritus remains among the most developed Cuban regions »