Graduate in Nursing, First Degree specialist in Community Nursing, Diploma in Emergency and trained in Diabetic Foot, Maribel Ondina Pérez Peña, fulfills her second internationalist mission in Venezuela, “in the first I was in a Comprehensive Diagnosis Center (CDI) in the municipality of Camatagua, Aragua state ”, she affirms.
Caracas.- For two years now, her colleagues in the Comprehensive Community Health Area (ASIC) 509 Guaracarumbo, the Venezuelan state of La Guaira, and the patients she treats have known her altruism and dedication.
The COVID-19 has changed her professional routines, and "I am now working in Emergencies, because my CDI is a sentinel and when I leave the guard I am going to inquire in the communities, also complying with biosafety protocols," she confirms with naturalness.
THE GREATEST SATISFACTION
Behind, or better said, in front of all the opinions that I reveal to you are the hands, the altruism and the professionalism of Maribel, who since her arrival in this land has put her heart at the feet of the diabetic patients.
"Manuel Dosantos, Jesús Salazar and Yosleydi de González are already healthy thanks to their discipline and compliance with the guidelines," says Maribel with simplicity and extreme modesty as if she had nothing to do with the good news and just who is close to her can assess her satisfaction.
She highlights how Daniel Hollalbez, 45 years old and type II diabetic patient, went to medical aid with very deep injuries to one of her lower extremities and in just three months he rejoined society in full faculties.
They are Venezuelan diabetic patients who came to the clinic suffering from diabetic foot ulcers; and she assumed, along with other specialists, the treatment and was constantly pending the evolution.
DIABETIC PATIENTS AND PANDEMIC
In the early hours of Sunday, May 3, the Venezuelan state where Maribel provides her solidarity services was the site of the frustrated terrorist landing attempt from Colombia.
About the events and their proximity, Maribel says: "No, I was not scared, I was just outraged,” because she considers them criminals "with the epidemiological problem that the world is experiencing and there are still indolent trying to destroy a people (...). We will continue in the first line of combat against the new coronavirus,” she emphasizes resolutely.
Although the battle to cut the chain of contagion of the pandemic and attend to positive cases is a priority on the current agenda, patients with other pathologies are not forgotten and the Diabetic Good Living Program continues its services.
Maribel notes that the Macuto CDI maintains a consultation and has transferred those who need it there; and she has turned the WhatsApp Messenger application into an ally to follow up on her patients who, due to problems with fuel and transportation, their distant residence or low-income situations, cannot travel to the health institution.
WHATSAPP IN TIME OF SOCIAL CONFINEMENT
"Thus, I am in direct contact with the sick and the family, whose members received training in diet control, blood sugar and addictions, which among other measures help to keep them compensated and when this control is achieved, healing is faster,” she explains.
And these messages are proof of the effectiveness of this initiative and the eternal gratitude of family and patients: lván Sánchez, son of José, 79 years old, wrote: “Hello, how are you Maribel (…), my dad has been improving fairly good (…). Thank you for your valuable collaboration. I will always be grateful for your help. You are a wonderful person and a great professional. You are so much appreciated and all the work that you do is valued.”
Meanwhile, Mayrovis Camacho, daughter of Agustina de Camacho, praises: "I want to thank all the Cuban staff, especially the one who works at the CDI in Guaracarumbo, for the very nice treatment they give to all patients, especially the wonderful treatment they gave my mom the time she was there in the diabetic foot room (...). They were very loving, everything made us feel like we were a family or that we knew each other from a long time ago (…).”
EPILOGUE
The empire's campaigns cannot succeed against that work of love that the Cuban Health collaborators built in the world; and Maribel is another warrior for life who with simplicity, humility, modesty and much love contributes to that matrix of favorable opinion multiplied among the most humble.
And she works calmly with the encouragement of knowing that she is the daughter of a Revolution that shelters and protects her family, whose professional and human fulfillment is guaranteed.
