To improve response capacity and quality of patient care, a major renovation of one of the rooms in the Emergency Department at Dr. Ernesto Guevara General Teaching Hospital has been completed, incorporating new specialized areas that will optimize patient flow and the treatment of critical conditions.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- The expansion of the Emergency Intensive Care Unit was inaugurated in the presence of the highest authorities of the Party and the provincial government, as well as hospital executives.
The project, which has been described as strategic by the authorities of the province's largest health institution, responds to the high morbidity of the cases received daily by the Emergency Department, explained Dr. Hansel Pita Meriño, specialist in Internal Medicine and head of the service.
“Given the high morbidity of the cases that come to the Emergency Room, adding these two new areas to our service has been a wise decision; it gives us greater availability of beds to care for patients, as well as the incorporation of other services, such as coronary care, which allows us to differentiate better and provide higher quality treatment.”
Beyond the direct benefits for patients, the head of the emergency department stressed that the renovation also has a positive impact on the work of the medical and nursing team.
“We will also achieve better assessment of cases, more personalized treatment for our patients, and even greater comfort for healthcare personnel.”
For her part, Dr. Marianela Zapata Romero, director of Guevara, detailed the specific scope of the renovation. “We have added six new beds for the care of critically ill patients, creating an emergency intensive care unit. This increase gives us the possibility of opening an individual space for the treatment of acute chest pain, which is the leading cause of medical attention and death worldwide, in our country, and in our province, among cardiovascular conditions.”
The creation of this specific area for chest pain represents a crucial advance in the rapid and specialized management of cardiac pathologies, which constitute one of the main medical emergencies.
Zapata Romero also emphasized the improvements in the emergency surgery area. "In addition, we gained an expanded space for the observation of surgical conditions, close to the operating room and the emergency intensive care unit.
“This new physical layout will allow for faster and safer multidisciplinary care for polytrauma patients, primarily, in addition to other surgical conditions that have also increased at the end of the current calendar year.”
