Improving quality of Primary Health Care is top priority

The implementation and fulfillment of the work projections to rescue the foundational concepts of the Family Doctor and Nurse Program is one of the priorities of the Public Health Directorate in Las Tunas, for which it develops a broad action plan in the eight municipalities.

Malaria constitutes a health risk.

With the irruption of COVID-19, the disastrous truck of malaria was left behind, as the cause of high numbers of deaths in the world. The eradication of malaria is a chimera for various countries, especially for those settled in the regions with the greatest poverty in Africa and Asia; meanwhile, treatment in America, with the active help of the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics, has led to the control of those infected and the decline in statistics.

Pregnancy in the adolescence means a social problem.

A strategy for the prevention of adolescent pregnancy in Las Tunas -with a fertility rate of 22 percent, the highest in the country- is implemented by specialists of the Maternal and Child Care Program (PAMI).

Concern in Las Tunas about sexual initiation at early ages

Sexual initiation in Las Tunas is getting younger every day, as experts have confirmed; and some have also confessed, in certain spaces, that this reality is among the causes that later provoke erectile disorders and related dilemmas.