LIMA, Peru – Mirta Santos León, director of medical assistance at the General Directorate of Health in Sancti Spíritus, acknowledged that the generating sets located within the province’s polyclinics would be turned on only in the event of an emergency or medical emergency.
“The generator sets in the polyclinics are going to be turned on in the event of an emergency. To treat a cold, to treat asthma, to treat a pathology
Santos León’s statements to Radio Sancti Spíritus They occur in the midst of a context of aggravated crisis within Cuba, as part of the subsistence measures that the Castro regime is taking in the face of fuel shortages.
“If it is in the early morning, a heart attack or acute lung edema occurs, we really need the generator set. That is why we insist on controlling the fuel to use it. Use it only in those moments of emergency,” said the official.
Likewise, he expanded on the blood tests and other tests that are carried out in the 23 polyclinics of the province, emphasizing that they work, but with limitations also marked by the energy crisis.
According to the directive, the diagnostic means are “generally” carried out in the morning, around only two hours, according to the availability of fuel.
“The generating sets provide the energy to guarantee these studies. In the same way, we are talking about the maternal and child program. If we have a group of pregnant women and we have the fuel, then we turn on the generating set to guarantee the ultrasound of the pregnant women who attend,” warned Santos León, without mentioning what happens then in the opposite case, when the product is not available.
The health authorities in the territory stressed that these measures “are temporary” and respond to the need to preserve essential health services while they are systematically evaluated. the energy situation and its impact on the functioning of the primary care network in the province.
