Consolidated in its objective of politically ensuring processes that are strategic for the development of the country, as is the case of Higher Education, the Social Observatory of the University of Las Tunas constantly monitors COVID-19 in Cuba and the lessons left during its confrontation.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- This was confirmed to the Cuban News Agency by the Doctor in Philosophical Sciences Carlos Alberto Suárez Arcos, who from the center of high studies coordinates the multidisciplinary team that analyzes and studies the teachings that in the epidemiological, economic, communicational and social orders the COVID-19 represents for the national territory.
Among the positive aspects, Suárez Arcos meant the forecasting ability, the rapid and effective use of the potentialities of the Biopharmaceutical Industry and what this represents in the face of an epidemiological situation; a response that the Social Observatory (OSULT) identifies as a result of the strategic thinking legacy by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.
Similarly, the decision to isolate the different groups of people in accordance with their level of relationship with the disease (contacts of confirmed cases, suspects, and contacts of suspected cases) gave the guarantee of containment in favorable epidemiological conditions, such as OSULT has been displaying graphics through social media.
Suárez Arcos explained that in contrast to the health strength, the COVID-19 demonstrated the pending subjects that Cuba as society has in terms of social discipline, and to what extent this takes its toll on a phenomenon that necessarily requires health education.
Other readings speak of the way in which the staple products are organized and distributed, in response to which the Social Observatory concluded that rationing is a methodological principle of management in a country that is adapted to live in contingency situations and adapting to the most dissimilar stages and regulations.
Exhausting all planning capabilities, avoiding crowds, decentralizing products, as well as maintaining vitality in the agri-food sector, are among the issues that go beyond the confrontation with the new coronavirus, added the researcher.
In addition, the OSULT is working on a study article that under the title "COVID-19: from the epidemiological confrontation to the political-communicational confrontation,” seeks to address how from the presence of the first positive cases to SARS-CoV-2 and through all efforts to keep the population prepared and informed, misinformation persists.
To the extent that we have a much more computerized society, it must also be informed, Suárez Arcos said.
Identified by its protagonists as a newly created body, the Observatory, in its four years of work, from the direction of Marxism Leninism of the University, has been in charge of taking a look at the substantive processes that occur within it and the political and ideological implications that they have in Higher Education.
With three fundamental areas of work, the OSULT theoretically supports the research of the University of Las Tunas conducts surveys and practical readings to implement or refine strategies and processes of values formation or the extension activity itself.
It has a direct anti-subversion dimension that is in charge of monitoring all the attacks that are carried out against Cuban Higher Education from different platforms, but in essence, against the most valuable that it has, its young people.
