CAMAGÜEY.- The application of Heberprot-P in this province remained stable during the past 2018; however, as long as there is a significant number of diabetics requiring amputations from their lower limbs, experts agree, first in that prevention was not effective in avoiding ulcers on their feet, and second, if already suffering, the detection of these were not timely.

 This is the thought of the specialists in Angiology and Vascular Surgery and the personnel dedicated to this type of service, in which the professionals and technicians linked to the primary health care (APS) are involved, with their doctors and nurses of the family as essential leaders.

In the nine areas of health of the city and in each of the municipalities, the affected patients can receive the treatment injected in the lesion, with very few contraindications and always under informed consent of the patient, possibility available to all, with the privilege of being a Cuban drug unique in the world, despite how expensive its production is, because people receive it free of charge.

 Camagüey´s specialists in the Public Health sector and the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), agreed here in the high standard of quality of the Heberprot-P that is prescribed for the treatment of diabetics with ulcers on their feet (UPD), by of course, at the discretion of the experts.

 According to the dispensing carried out in the province, the population with this condition exceeds 77 900 and those included in this type of benefit was 88.4%, below the calculated, when, as expressed by Dr. Raúl Romay Buitrago, Specialist in Angiology and Vascular Surgery, and head of this service in the University Hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech, of this city, the magic of the results is in the integral attention to the patient, beyond the medicine.

 Avoiding limb amputation means, he said, saving lives and even though the figures are not alarming they exceeded those recorded in the year 2017. This time it was recognized that the promotion work is still insufficient.

 In Camagüey, and at the doors of the 12 years of implemented in Cuba the program of Integral attention to people with this condition, in June to come, doctors, nurses, promoters of the branch of the health and of the CIGB are proposed in this 2019 to improve the prevention as the gold measure and the timely use of the drug when required, as an effective solution that stimulates the appearance of new blood vessels that will nourish the ulcer in question, promotes the irrigation of the bed of this and promotes the access of tissue GR Annulment, which means its usefulness for the occurrence of epithelization or closure of the lesion. Not for taste the drug is registered in more than 20 countries of all continents.

 Surgical debridement of the diabetic foot was the subject masterfully addressed by Dr. Odalys Escalante Padrón, specialist in Angiology and Vascular Surgery, who addressed the principles of success, where urgent surgery should not be absent and the trreatment of infection.

 The graduate in Nursing and master in Science Jacqueline Pérez Estenoz, promoter of the Heberprot-P of Public Health, was recognized by the specialists of the CIGB of Camagüey for her tenacity and commitment, both in the promotion and in the assistance to the affected ones in the Joaquín de Agüero Health Area (North).

The representatives of the health areas March 13, Jimaguayu; Victoria de Girón, Guaimaro; Van Troi, of Guaimaro-Cascorro; Francisco Peña, from Nuevitas; 20 anniversary, of Nuevitas-Camalote; Arturo Puig, of Minas; Noel Fernandez, of Minas-Senate; Antonio Pacheco, from Minas-Lugareño; and the Ignacio Agramonte and Rodolfo Ramírez Esquivel, both from Camagüey, exalted their achievements in the prevention and application of Heberprot-P in the previous year.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez