This delicate situation is also present with healthcare supplies and consumables that affect services in hospital facilities, but “we are not sitting idly by,” the health minister said
Work is being done to reduce the number of bottlenecks as much as possible, reported Dr. José Ángel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health. (Photo: Liz Conde Sanchez).
At present, the situation of the drug table is “difficult from a supply point of view”; However, work is being done to reduce the number of bottlenecks as much as possible, and alternative solutions to solve them are being discussed by the country’s leadership, reported Dr. José Ángel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health Thursday.
He pointed out that this delicate situation is also present with healthcare supplies and consumables that impact services in hospital facilities, but “we are not with our arms crossed in that sense,” he said.
The healthcare system is facing numerous constraints, he added, and there are supply processes that need to be postponed, particularly due to the difficulties in manufacturing medicines by the national industry and medicines imported from the MINSAP.
He specified that the country’s economic situation is complex in terms of the impact of the financial siege imposed by the US government, to which must be added the problems with logistical operations, complicated by the Covid pandemic.
This situation, he stressed, puts the health system in an unfavorable position to treat a group of diseases, affecting public opinion.
He assured that the State, the health system and the Cuban biopharmaceutical industry are analyzing where the supply priorities are concentrated in the face of the economic situation with resource limitations and the measures of economic blockade, which are taking place in the midst of the pandemic, which is particularly affecting the health sector.
This means that these difficulties will not be solved in the short term, but are being worked on intensively due to their impact on the city.
He noted that it is important to continue reviving health services that have been suspended or reduced over the past two years.
“This funding that we have provided for Covid, we need to slow it down without leaving the population unprotected and also put it into other vital activities and health measures,” he said.
MAIN CAUSE OF MORTALITY AND DISEASE IN THE COUNTRY
Noncommunicable diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the country, not only affecting people over 60 years of age, but also being a cause of disability in young adults and even children.
According to the 2017 National Aging Survey, 80.6% of people aged 60 and over suffer from at least one chronic condition, a proportion that rises to 86.9% and more among 75-year-olds.
The head of MINSAP pointed out that this is an element that conditions the impact of the Covid, mainly in the Cuban population over 60 years old, for whom the comprehensive care program for the elderly, created since 1996, faces new challenges. , then global health crisis, to which are added those already existing, typical of the demographic characteristics of the current Cuban population.
In order to achieve the goal of progressively improving the health of our population, Dr.
