CAMAGÜEY.- As of today and until the Friday 15th, around 30 foreign delegates from Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Honduras and Spain, along 250 Cuban, will expose, debate and exchange their experiences through a tight schedule of conferences within the context of the IX International Congress of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, aiming at pointing out intervention strategies related to the correct backup of nutrition of the ill in healthcare units.

Within the work sessions, seated at Santa Cecilia Convention Center, in this city, Dr. Dolores Rodríguez Veintimilla, from Ecuador, and President of the Latin American Federation of Parental and Enteral Nutrition (Felanpe, Spanish acronym), will reveal the accomplishments, challenges and aspirations of the organization.

The expert said in the opening words of the scientific date, that took place in the Avellaneda Theater, that in Latin America, over 50% of malnutrition in its hospitals suffer repercussions in a late scarification, in the high number of infections, and in the increase of hospital staying of the ill, and referred to the need of offering warm and quality services.

The doctors Reinaldo Pons Vázquez, provincial director of Health, and Fidela Reyes Obediente, rector of the University of Medical Science in Camagüey Carlos J. Finlay, talked about the actuality and perspective of Clinical Nutrition in the province of Camagüey, and a historical review about this specialty from the point of view of the formation of students, respectively.

On the other hand, Dr. Lázaro Alfonso Novo, president of the Cuban Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, highlighted in his key note speech that in only three years developing the specialty in the province, it already counts with a Congress of such magnitude, and mentioned the 17 pre-congress courses carried out with the participation of a student body made by doctors, nurses, nutritionists and chemist-pharmacist, only to mention some, which exceeded the expectations, even, some credited by international and national organisms linked to the purpose of the meeting, and that, from over a decade, had not been carried out in Cuba.

The Society, pointed out, hosts 900 affiliates in the country, reason it has been recognized by personalities of Latin America and other places, for its multiprofessional composition and from all across the nation, and he referred to the international cooperation atmosphere involving them since the Declaration of Cartagena, Colombia in may of this year, that deals with the right to food in the clinical environment and the fight against malnutrition.

At the inauguration, 14 specialists received the titles of Honorary Member of the Cuban Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (Socnut, Spanish acronym), because of their remarkable contributions, four of them from Camagüey.

Already in the Congress, Dr. Félix González González, endocrinologist of vast experience in the university hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech, talked about the differences between precision and prediction diet, the application of omic sciences (that allow the study of a great number of molecules, involved in the functioning of an organism) and emphasize about the evolution of the traditional approach that indicated the same diet for every person and how through nutritional genomes they have arrived to the conclusion that each individual requires a type of it that considers his particularities and life conditions.

Since arthritis is a health condition that affects millions of people in the world, Dr. Jesús Barreto Penié, chief of the clinical nutrition service in the capital hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, offered his thoughts about the relation of this condition and the hyper energetic intake linked to the high consumption of red meats, and clarify the need to know how to distribute the meals in a way that the food is the medicine of the body.

A Round Table about the behavior of the subject Nutrition in academic studies from the teaching institutions of the sector, will take place during the event, and they will select the most innovative among almost 50 lectures of free subjects and 34 electronic posters.

Nutrition in the Mother and Child Healthcare Program (PAMI, Spanish acronym), in malnourished children, and in chronic conditions such as diabetes mellitus and cancer, will be discussed among the scheduled lectures.

The Socnut is part of the Latin American Federation of Nutritional Therapy, Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (FELANPE), to create the conditions and guarantee the evaluation and insurance of the quality of the food and nutrition cares of the hospitalized patient in the entire continent.

At the same time as the conferences in Santa Cecilia, there will be other sessions in the hospital Manuel Ascunce and the University of Medical Sciences Carlos J. Finlay, in this province, and in every case under the principle of building a nutritional support from the first stages of life and in the most vulnerable groups in special situations.