The Ministry of Public Health expects that in the first half of 2023, nine rooms will come into operation to care for patients with hemodialysis treatment, which are currently under construction in several Cuban provinces thanks to a loan granted by the French Development Agency.
In a note published by the official newspaper Granmathe Director of Investments of the Ministry of Public Health, Jorge Pordieguez, assured that the new centers will strengthen the care network for patients with kidney failure, an increasingly frequent disease that still has no cure beyond treatments to help control their efects.
“Patients have to receive the service three times a week. Therefore, these new facilities will mean economy, well-being and quality of life for these people and their families,” he said.
The official commented that each facility will have between 10 and 15 artificial kidneys, in addition to having their respective water treatment plants and cisterns. During a visit to the construction zone at the Primero de Enero polyclinic, located in the municipality of Consolación del Sur, in Pinar del Río, Pordieguez pointed out that for the moment the works are advancing and, if everything goes according to plan, the first patients they will be taken care of before the end of the first half of 2023.
With the new equipment, close to 3,100 patients will be treated, and they come to replace the old and obsolete devices in 56 nephrology specialty services
Although the official newspaper omits the amount of the credit, a note Published by Canal Caribe in May 2022, when the project was announced, it indicates that the operation exceeds 10 million euros in financing. The first intervention includes the purchase of 582 hemodialysis equipment, of which 332 came into operation in April of last year and the remaining 250 were expected to enter the Island in June, but the health authorities have not provided further details.
With the new equipment, close to 3,100 patients will be treated, and they come to replace the old and obsolete devices in 56 nephrology specialty services. The project also includes the purchase of 25 artificial kidney machines.
The Cuban National Health System does not have sufficient capacity to meet the needs of the population and there are frequent complaints from patients or relatives who did not receive care due to a lack of health personnel, medical supplies and ambulances for transfers. Almost all of the innovations made in recent years have depended on donations, such as the first transcatheter aortic valve implantation using a minimally invasive technique, performed in November of last year. with equipment donated by the Spanish company Iberhospitex and with a valve imported from India.
Even vaccines against covid-19 are preserved in refrigerators and temperature controllers donated by Japan through a project executed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). This donation includes 447 World Health Organization (WHO) qualified refrigerators, temperature controllers, ice packs and freezers, distributed in 255 primary care institutions.
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