Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Nov 3.- Cuba and Türkiye inaugurated collaboration actions for perinatal care services, newborns and pediatric intensive care units, including the donation of equipment to the Eusebio Hernández gynecobstetric hospital.
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) and the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba celebrated the arrival by air to the Caribbean country of the equipment for the neonatal ward of said Havana health facility, which will improve the quality of medical care and reduce the tension of health personnel.
This Turkish donation includes an intensive care incubator and a transfer incubator, two high-frequency lung ventilators, a unit of high-flow equipment, a neonatal cardiac monitor, two high-resolution binocular clinical microscopes, supplies, among other elements, he said in the opening ceremony was attended by the Cuban Vice Minister of Health, Dr. Reinol García Moreira.
The vice president pointed out Cuba's maternal and child health indicators, the best in Latin America, despite the long, criminal and unjust economic blockade of the United States against the island and thanked the valuable Turkish help to help restore lower infant mortality rates; four for every thousand live births that the Caribbean country had.
The ceremony was attended by the ambassador of Türkiye, Vehbi Esgel Etensel; the director of the TIKA agency, Fatih Abdi Cetin, and the director of the Havana hospital center, Dr. Otto Recio Rodríguez, among other directors and officials of the branch along with health workers, specialists and Cuban doctors.
The importance of neonatal resuscitation techniques and the physiological changes that occur during and after childbirth were part of the content of a course given this week by three Turkish professors specializing in Neonatology to some 60 Cuban professionals at the aforementioned Havana maternity hospital.
Turkish teachers donated teaching aids, simulators, textbooks and other materials to contribute to future training of specialists from other parts of Cuba.
Ankara's diplomatic representative in Havana, Vehbi Esgel Etensel, highlighted Cuba's solidarity with the sending of a medical brigade to Türkiye after the damage caused by the earthquake last February. (Text and photo: PL)
