CAMAGUEY.- As of this June, the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Provincial Pediatric Hospital has a cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation classroom, designed for the training of specialists and residents of intensive therapy for children and the preparation of students of the University of Medical Sciences.
In the new facility, which is named Dra. Odila Quirós Viqueira in honor of this excellent professional who died in November 2020, theory will be linked to practice, although the greater weight will fall on the latter.
According to Dr. Yudilien Quintana García, head of the intensive therapy service at the “Pediatric”, the aim is to raise the level of the staff and improve resuscitation methods. "To the extent that we reinforce the knowledge related to the subject and that the boys finish their rotations a little more soaked in reality, we will increase the survival of the children we serve here."
With a capacity for ten people, the classroom is equipped with simulators, models (infants of different pediatric ages), defibrillation equipment, tubes of different sizes and laryngoscopes, that is, the means used in real time in resuscitation.
At the opening, Doctors Reinaldo Pons Vázquez, provincial health director, and Leonardo Ramírez Rodríguez, director of the pediatric hospital, who were in charge of cutting the opening ribbon were there. At the event, Dr. Tamara Chaos Correa, rector of the Carlos J. Finlay University thanked on behalf of her students.
“We receive with joy the news that within the framework of the celebrations for the anniversary of the university, a classroom for professional development in related specialties would be made available to us. We are also pleased that this space serves as a tribute to Dr. Odila, since she was that simple person who was always present and who gave the best to pediatrics in her 45 years of professional work ”.
The creation of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation classroom stands out as another example of the constant search in Camagüey for a more complete academic training of university graduates.
- Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez