Las Tunas towards the Second National Congress of the Union of Health • Workers

Making public health services sustainable in the current situation and preserving the human sensitivity that distinguished loyal army soldiers in white coats were the compasses that guided the discussions at the Second Regional Conference of the Sector Confederation in Las Tunas, with which the organic conference began. process at this level in the country.

And in the opposite panorama experienced by the nation, to the skeptics it may seem like an illusion, but the vast majority of those who have the social responsibility to defend this conquest of the revolution believe it is possible, and trust and fight every day, against the windmills to preserve it.

The arguments are many. But now it is not about honoring nor filling the film’s protagonists with the praise they deserve. No. Delegates set their sights on self-burdening that destroys better results and do not wander around known shortcomings, and almost all interventions appealed to collective commitment and ingenuity as strengths to find solutions and move forward, “It’s true. There are many needs, but there are also viable alternatives.” , said Israel Diaz Naranjo, a representative of the municipality of Colombia, who reviewed several of them.

d criticized system, without exhausting all possibilities within the treatment you need.

With regard to the exit of professionals, Dr. Reyñol Delfin García Moreira, Deputy Minister of Health, added that nearly 80% of the professionals who left the sector are not outside the country, they have gone to other jobs that provide them with a better income, and at the same time, he indicated in this regard to “Move faster in caring for workers and speed up compliance with standards already approved that respond to unsatisfactory expectations.”

García Moreira presented some measures on standby that will provide answers to several concerns related to this issue and explained that the Ministry of Public Health works in five main lines, among which he highlighted those related to human resources; Reorganize Services” and specify that it is essential to promote system-wide thinking with the stated aim of overcoming challenges and maintaining these critical services with quality.

There are real possibilities to earn more, but opportunities to honor achievements that contribute to preserving ancient technologies and saving inputs are lost, but Law 38, which regulates the payment of innovations and justifications, is not adhered to literally.

“The hardest thing is science and innovation and we already have that, but they are not stimulated. We have 500 union departments and only 33 committees of health unions,” said Gerardo Gutierrez Martínez, head of this structure at the Center for Clinical Engineering and Electromedicine in Las Tunas and direct delegate to the 2nd National Congress of the Health Confederation. Innovators and mentors.

There has also been criticism of the payment for biohazard, which in the case of the Regional Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology takes into account only general assistants and does not know the rest of the staff who work directly with potentially dangerous specimens.

Other voices called for a better selection of union cadres at the base and those who direct operations and activities without the required knowledge, because they lack experience and move through other lower levels until completing their training.

Zonilda García Garcés, an official in the party’s central committee, has advocated moving from diagnosis to action to resolve situations affecting services, because people expect and need solutions, an issue on which union participation is vital.

Aides elected the new Regional Committee and certified Karianna Pérez Rodríguez as Secretary General; They also chose six of the seven delegates, one of them direct, who will represent Las Tunas in the Second National Congress, and who will leave the path, under the slogan United and Committed to the Health of the People, the way clear to accomplish their mission.

Manuel Pérez Gallego, member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the party in Las Tunas, also attended the meeting. the deputy and governor of the province Jaime Chiang Vega; Secretary General of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Odalys Batista Pérez and the administrative leaders of health.