Again at the request of José Ángel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health, the Leonilda Tamayo Matos medical brigade was established today on the Isle of Youth, which will assist pediatric cases positive for COVID-19 in Artemisa.
At 2.00 pm, the 16 professionals of the sector will travel by air to that province with a complex epidemiological scenario to attend to pediatric patients, who are admitted to the "General Antonio Maceo" Interarmas School, located in the Caimito municipality, which currently functions as a field hospital.
At the head of the brigade is Dr. Pedro Bello Oliva, who together with three pediatricians, six doctors and seven nursing graduates, will put up the name of the pine trees and their expertise in the care and treatment of those infected with the SARS CoV virus. -2, said Israel Velázquez Batista, municipal director of the branch.
He added that among the locals who leave to fulfill this mission, Dr. Marlon Heredia stands out, who more than once has put his professionalism and altruism to the test in Venezuela and Brazil and today he has to save the lives of his compatriots, in this particular positive children. to the new corona virus.
We trust in the expertise and ability of these professionals, who will return home victorious and with the pride of having done their duty well, he said. William Chávez Garcés, David's father, who has a degree in nursing specializing in pediatrics, expressed his pride in his son's unconditionality and attachment to the values of the profession as he was among the first to enlist in the call to fulfill a mission in the province of Artemis, "I know you will do well, I just ask you to take care of yourself," she said.
This is the third health brigade constituted in Isla de la Juventud to face COVID-19 in other territories of the country, with a complex clinical-epidemiological situation, where the Delta variant of the SARS CoV-2 virus circulates.
Due to the infectious-contagious disease, five thousand 303 Cubans have died in Cuba since March 11, 2020, when the first cases were diagnosed, of them, three from the special municipality, a territory without autochthonous transmission and with control of the imported cases, detected at the border.
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