Mexico City, March 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuban doctors are key today to the care of chronic diseases at the IMSS-Bienestar Hospital in San Luis Acatlán, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, according to a media outlet on its website.
A report in the prestigious newspaper La Jornada indicates that the proper management of these conditions has contributed to reducing the demand for care in the hospital’s emergency department, and that cases of asthma attacks, diabetes mellitus decompensation, or kidney failure are virtually nonexistent.
“Since last year, they have been treated by Cuban specialists, and the community’s quality of life has improved on average,” the text states.
Preventive medicine and health promotion enhance the well-being of communities, said Dasiel Budet, from Havana, who, along with a Cuban colleague, inaugurated the internal medicine service at the health institution in July 2024.
The newspaper also visited the IMSS-Bienestar Hospital located in the municipality of Ayutla de los Libres, where surgeries have been performed for more than a year, Monday through Friday, by two specialists from the island. Without them, the operating room would be closed.
At the health center, director Pablo Navarrete, along with Mexican and Cuban doctors, are collaborating in whatever is needed, because half of the medical positions are vacant and the need to address obstetric emergencies, among other things.
“Premature births and newborns, who should be seen by a neonatologist, but there isn’t one, are then taken care of by pediatricians, of whom there are only three, whether or not they are on duty: two Cubans and one Cuban,” the outlet reports.
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