Havana/José Ángel Portal Miranda, Cuban Health Minister, critical This Friday in Villa Clara the failures in the “compliance with medical ethics”, an euphemism that describes the corruption of medical services in the province. Its delegation also detected “non -suitable results” in the state of the facilities, the production of medicines, the training of personnel and the “political and ideological” situation of the health.
Villa Clara can only be proud of the rate of zero maternal death – since two years ago – and the decrease in the number of children under birth, the lowest in the country. The infant mortality rate is 7.1 per 1,000 live births and has risen the amount, it was not said how much, children under five years of age. These figures, which local leaders consider positive, are the only ones that local media contributed.
The official press of the province, one of the most orthodox and little criticism of the country, did not know what terms describe the minister’s diatribe. Vanguarddirectly supervised by the Communist Party, he was content to publish an opinion text that indirectly alluded to the words of Portal Miranda, which put “the points on the íes.”
The site of the CMHW station, meanwhile, reduced the scolding to a “fruitful exchange” with the official
The CMHW station site, on the other hand, reduced the scolding to a “fruitful exchange” with the official. Only the Telecubanacán website – not read by the Villaclareños – noticed the “critical look” of the minister, who “reviewed the achievements and deficiencies of the sector.” It alluded, above all, to “population aging, low birth rate, epidemics, drugs and the sustainability of services.”
In a comment on the meeting, the official journalist Ricardo González proved the minister and offered more details: in Villa Clara there is “illegal sale of services, medicines and resources.” In addition, “favoritisms in consultations” occur, especially for the “realization of surgery or reaching a diagnosis.” Attention depends on “a gift or a prebend” to the staff.
“It is known who they are and yet nothing happens,” González settled, who attributed this “profit and survival behavior” to the deficit of medical resources. The journalist also alluded to “those who mistreat” in the hospitals, and “spoil their job.”
On the other hand, about 200 medical offices in the province – which include the residence of medical and nursing staff – are in bad constructive state, according to the accountability of local leaders to Portal Miranda. This is one of the factors that affect the “stability and permanence of doctors,” they added, that they go in stampede “towards other sectors of the economy with the greatest remuneration and towards emigration.”
The minister did not hesitate to blame Washington’s embargo on the deficiencies that depend on the government
The minister did not hesitate to blame Washington’s embargo on the deficiencies that depend on the government and not on the provincial administration. If all the Villaclareños media coincide, it is that Portal Miranda repeated the slogan that has become popular among the tables of the regime: “the blockade is real.”
In the company of the local leaders of the Communist Party, Portal Miranda also requested a total reorganization of medical services. The bulk of the meeting, after criticism, dedicated it to granting government distinctions to doctors with a “selfless service sheet” not only to health, but also to the regime.
