The pediatric oncology in the aim of the blockade

José Miguel Rodríguez Rondón`s history, a hardly four year-old boy that suffers a wicked illness of type Linfoma No-Hodgkin abdominal estadio III (in a scale of IV), today can be counted thanks to the efforts that Cuba carries out as regards health, in spite of the absurd obstacles that imposes the economic blockade of United States.

From the Territorial Center of Reference in Pediatric Oncology, of the infantile hospital Eduardo Agramonte Piña, of the city of Camagüey, this history of hands of the Doctor arrives Juan Carlos Arranz, boss of that service in this institution.

“When José arrived around four months ago to our center, he had a severe malnutrition-caquexia in terms medical- and we had to go to the parenteral feeding, a treatment that is quite expensive, besides the chemotherapy and the early rehabilitation. But for complications of the illness was necessary to apply him a surgery, to which has evolved quite well, and is already clever to continue with the therapies.”

In Cuba people with cancerigenic sufferings are assisted in centers specialized by multidisciplinary teams that fulfill the international norms of treatment protocol for the surgery, the radiotherapy, the chemotherapy and the immunotherapy. In accordance with Arranz, the Island exhibits indicators of survival and of similar cured patients to those of the first world.

At the present time is of highlighting the qualitative jump of the Cuban medicine in the development of therapeutic vaccines for the cancer with satisfactory results, and in use in several countries of the five continents.

But, according to the doctor Juan Carlos, this attention to patient with wicked illnesses in the pediatric age, bears treatments with multidisciplinary teams and support that require highly expensive financial resources, for example, the equipment for the surgery of minimum access of cerebral tumors, the endoprothesis use in bony tumors to avoid the amputation of a member, the radiotherapy with lineal accelerator and the cytostatic ones.

And although all these resources, fortunately, can be acquired - challenging the North American commercial monopolization -, the worsening of the blockade with the approval of the laws Helms Burton and Torricelli, prevent to obtain them in a systematic and planned way, nevertheless to be indispensable to continue elevating the quality of life of the oncopediatry patient. Also, those farmacs or matters available cousins in other markets, far away, imply a bigger amount for the mount of the transportation.

Along these years, one of the areas of the affected specialized medical care has been the oncology, even forbidden, to use medications and efficient technologies that can only be bought in the northern country.

According to the most recent report “Necessity to put an end to the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by United States to Cuba”, another time the sector of the public health appears as white of the aggressions and violations that supposes the application of this almost fiftieth anniversary political instrument.

Between May of 2009 and April of 2010, the one mounts economic of the blockade to the sector of the public health overcomes the 15 million dollars, to that which sink, the psychological affectations, the pain, the desperation that supposes for the patients and their families.(Arailaisy Rosabal García )

Reopens its doors Center of Health and Beauty Venus in Camagüey

Camagüey. The Center of Health and Beauty Venus reopened its doors this Wednesday, with a totally rejuvenated image, after seven months without offering services to the population to be subjected to a capital repair.

The entity began to pay attention with a different comfort, new technological teams and its completely acclimatized main living room.

Services every day of the week will be lent in the schedules from eight of the morning to seven of the night, except on Sundays that will close in the schedule of the noon.

As Eneida Cerceller informed, boss of the department of services, in the installation all the departments will work, excepting the podology area for not being complete the instrumental necessary and the area of the sauna that is still in repair process.

The entity has a cafeteria located in the hairdresser living room where the clients will be able to consent to different offers like are the liquid products and the fruits, to a moderate price.

Celebrate anniversary of la Trova`s House Patricio Ballagas of Camagüey

Camagüey. For more than 30 years minstrels, soners and poets, have found a space for the diffusion of it work in an emblematic construction, marked with the number 171 of the old street bigger today Salvador Cisneros, in the vicinity of the park Ignacio Agramonte.

Some years ago it was transformed into an institution ,cultural institution that takes the prominent musician's name Patricio Ballagas who bequeathed to the culture Cuban, valuable compositions and a peculiar stamp in the execution of several inrtuments.

Before 1959 that property functioned as an establishment worked for the sale of musical instruments, being the revolution the main inspiring of what is at the moment: replies of the colonial art of Camagüey, and space of having forced attendance for those who love the popular traditional music.

In that corner of the trova have offered the best in it talent several generations of consecrated artits of the national culture as Cesar Portillo de la Luz, Esther Borges, Nicolás Guillén, Luis Carbonell, the feeling lady Elena Burke, González Allue, Rosa Fornes, María Elena Pena, Sergio Farias, Carlos Puebla and many more than the patio and of other regions of the country.

The camagüeyan house of the trova, arrives to its anniversary XXXV of having constituted with an intense program of cultural diffusion, being the prospective presentations of the extraordinary Candita Batista and the grouping Soneros de Camacho, farming grouping of the son,since the years 30 of last century, those of more artistic relief.

Since it opening so far, the music house of Camagüey, not only has included in it programmings the trova, but also charge life other musical styles as the filing, the danzon the bolero and until the tango rocks, which had in their moment many followers.

The house of the trova "Patricio Ballagas" of group with the representation of ARTEX in the county, determines to maintain alive the most authentic cultural traditions in the city of the earthenjars and it people, an aspiration that crystallizes thanks to the passion of groupings, soloists and composers of the fertile plain of Camagüey.

Registered contingent of Santa Cruz del Sur that will support the construction of housings

Camagüey, Dec 25. - A new force for the construction of housings was registered this Wednesday in the municipality of Camagüey Santa Cruz del Sur, integrated by residents of that town, very affected by the hurricane Paloma.

More than 100 men integrate the brigade “Camilo Cienfuegos” of the Contingent “Sixth Congress of the Party”, most of them in charge of the construction of 132 apartments of two or three rooms, in typology buildings Sandino.

Another half hundred will leave shortly toward Shipyard, where by means of practical learning will train in the constructive tools, with the purpose of augmenting the forces that will increase the tourist development in Santa Lucía's pole of Camagüey.

When leaving constituted the grouping manufacturer Santa Cruz, the member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the county; Julio Cesar García Rodríguez, highlighted the momentous of the effort that will overturn, in what can already call you the construction of the “other Santa Cruz.”

The registered force this Wednesday, will reinforce the constructive actions of more than 300 housings in buildings in Santa Cruz del Sur, what will propitiate security to residents that inhabit the coast Santa Cruz until the present time, traditionally affected by the hurricanes and the penetration of the sea. (Pedro Paneque Ruiz ).