 Public Health in Cuba, An Irreversible Achievement
July 27, 2010, 4:00 pm
By Juan Morales Agüero
morales@enet.cu
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino
The successes conquered by Cuba during almost 50 years in the field of the public health are known and recognized in the whole planet. There in not a remote place without this important service.
The medical care, for example, is not only free, but also for everybody. Illnesses that are endemic in other countries, have been eradicated here completely. The Cuban State confers a high priority to this sector, one of the main indicators to measure the development of a nation.
In the hospitals, a sick person receives the most careful cares. From comfortable cubicles for restinf until all type of medica exams and analysis. Everything without any cost for the patient, although he stay during months. Because in a country like Cuba ther is nothing more important than a human being.
The feeding to those hospitalized people deserves a particular comment and not only during the most difficult days of the Cuban economic recession of the 1990´s, that in spite of the lack of raw materials and of the scarce entrance of inputs to the country, the sick persons never stopped to received their regulation foods.
The diet of a sick person in a Cuba doesn't lack of the traditional ingredients, such as carbohydrates, proteins and fatty. The consumption of fresh vegetables, rich in vitamins, is a widespread practice. The sick persons also drink milk and eat meat and eggs, in dependence of their illnesses.
In the Cuban medical institutions the hospitalized people don't consume the foods they can pay for, but those that are proper to their anomalies. Every year the authorities of this field plan millions of pesos so that the diet of a sick person fulfills the objective of helping in the recovery. And this is a legitimate respect of the individual's human rights.
The alimentary treatment that is received by those hospitalized people in Cuba is satisfaction for all the inhabitants of this land. The circumstances can put limitations to the domestic pan. But no sick person has ever gone to his bed with an empty stomach.
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