Camagüey deputies motivated to be accountable to Parliament

Camagüey, July 9.- The accountability of the Provincial Government of People's Power to the Cuban Parliament has become a true motivation for the people of Camagüey, especially for those representing the white coat sector, stated Roberto Alejandro Carrazana Carballo, deputy for the municipality of Florida and a second-year resident in the specialty of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

Improving the indicators of the Maternal and Child Care Program, both at the primary and secondary levels, is a permanent commitment of the medical personnel responsible for ensuring the health of pregnant women and newborns.

As worthy representatives of the people, he said, we assumed from the moment of notification of agreement X-113 the duty to transfer the accountability process to the communities, student groups and work centers, with the purpose of continuing to improve the work of the people of Camagüey in strategic sectors for the socioeconomic development of the territory, added the member of the commission of the Care for Youth, Children and Equality of Women's Rights.

This exercise has made it possible to strengthen the importance of communication in all spheres of society, said Daicar Saladrigas González, deputy for the municipality of Camagüey and director of the newspaper Adelante, as mass media and all ways at the community and institutional levels have been used to ensure that the public understands that the accountability is an opportunity to showcase the province's results over the past year.

Saladrigas González, a member of the Economic Affairs Committee of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP, for its acronym in Spanish), emphasized that citizen participation in this process is essential if each Camagüey native, from its radius of action fulfills its functions and proposes higher objectives, issues emphasized in the report to be presented at the Fifth Regular Session of the ANPP, in its X Legislature.

Around this transcendental moment, a popular movement has been generated in the constituencies, favoring the solution of community approaches and others included in the plan of the economy, said Dixamy Rodríguez Gómez, Deputy for the municipality of Camagüey and President of its Municipal Assembly of People’s Power (AMPP, for its acronym in Spanish).

However, she acknowledged that dissatisfaction persists among Camagüeyans related to such sensitive issues as the instability of the water supply, as well as the destination of production and its marketing.

In this sense, popular control actions have been carried out, aimed at achieving greater stability of the offers on the commercial network, mainly in the small markets, she pointed out.

Furthermore, she considered that the direct connection with the people, based on experience-sharing workshops at the people's council level, has been an essential pillar, as part of the priorities of the Commission for Attention to Local Bodies, of which she is a member.

She added that to this end, actions have been promoted aimed at satisfying the spirituality of the population, which, from different scenarios, has also been able to debate and provide opinions on the results the territory is exhibiting and the goals that should mark the next phase of work after the accountability concludes this July.

A strategic line that decides the Camagüey economy is the production of food, a task in which the inhabitants of the municipality of Vertientes are immersed, said Rolando Santana Corrales, deputy for that locality and president of his AMPP.

He commented that in the fulfillment of objective 3 of the Government Program to correct distortions and revive the economy there are advances in rice production, as well as in the planting of bananas, cassava, sweet potatoes and the delivery of milk and meat to industry.

For two consecutive years, said the also member of the commission of Care to the services, maintain an experience in the cultivation of potato and show a sovereignty in urban, suburban and family agriculture, at the same time that the development areas and productive poles take on different social tasks. (Text and photos: Yadira Núñez Figueredo/ACN)