Nurses in Camagüey Guarantee Comprehensive Medical Care

The role of nursing in offering medical care to senior citizens, victims of long-lasting sufferings, is key for health care providers linked to this discipline in Camagüey province.

According to officials the most highly skilled personnel is being employed in hospitals and homes for the elderly, taking into consideration that the population in Camagüey province is increasingly aging.

Thanks to the Family Doctor-and-Nurse System a better medical coverage has been attained in primary health care areas, in doctor’s offices and emergency units, at the same time the professional development of the nursing personnel is a priority, in order to achieve a better quality of their services.

In rehabilitations and physiotherapy facilities, where the adult population attends frequently, treatment for many ailments such as orthopaedic and neurological illnesses are ensured.

Specialists working in the nursing sector strive to be more efficient in guiding those families having bedridden patients at home and in the proper implementation of non or minimal invasive procedures as well as in the medication of patients. (Radio Cadena Agramonte )