The training of health professionals in the country to face Covid-19, as well as the sanitary deployment that is carried out throughout the national territory in the face of the threat of the new coronavirus, were issues addressed this Saturday by the team of specialists of the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK), the governing center of these activities to prevent the disease in Cuba.
Dr. José Luis Aparicio Suárez, head of the postgraduate department of the Ministry of Public Health, announced the particularities of the Covid-19 update and prevention update course, taught at the IPK, as a method to train and multiply the Sanitary procedures and epidemiological surveillance in the structures of our health system and in the different institutions and organizations of the country.
“The training is a continuous and staggered process, which is aimed at specific groups, according to their profession or occupation. The course we teach today is aimed at the masters of this knowledge that includes directors of the main medical institutions of the country, epidemiologists, pediatric and adult intensivists and other specialties, involving some 150 Cuban professionals, “he said.
For his part, Dr. Manuel Romero Placeres, head of the IPK, reported that 160 beds were enabled in the institution for the treatment of patients with the disease, of which 20 are especially for pregnant women and children. Similarly, he declared that the network of hospitals and relevant isolation centers are already planned in each territory to prevent the spread of the virus on the Island.
The director also said that Cuba has all the tools for the collection and processing of virus samples, guaranteed by the Minsap and the Pan American Health Organization.
Also, in the Central Medical Collaboration Unit (UCCM), its director, the doctor Jorge Hidalgo Bustillo, said that no member of the 61 Cuban brigades that provide services around the world present risks of contagion or symptoms associated with Covid-19.
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