Specialists work in Mental Health to prevent addictions

The prevention of the illnesses caused by the consumption in excess of tobacco and alcohol, constitute one of the priorities of the Community Centers of Mental Health in Camagüey.

A multidisciplinary team, integrated by psychiatrists, technicians and nurses, develops chats and educational therapies in schools, communities and labor centers, at the same time that coordinates the treatments and the hospitalization of the patients that require this way.

The specialized teams in addictions of the community centers of mental health generally have an expert dedicated to the ceasing tobbac. The biggest demand in the confidential line is to stop to smoke, and later the problems related with the consumption of alcohol.

The biggest demand in the confidential line is to stop to smoke, and later the problems related with the consumption of alcohol.

The youths with a social behavior of risk to the additions, receive a systematic pursuit by means of the medical clinics of the family, a fact that underlines the preventive value of the Cuban medicine.

The program of Mental Health in Camagüey is also distinguished for its effectiveness in the benefit of a specialized service of consultations and consejery, the one that facilitates a more direct relationship between the professionals and the population. (Alex López Almaguer)

Recognized for its quality vegetable coal of Camagüey

Recognized for its quality, the vegetable coal of Camagüey opens up step in the export lines and presently year will repeat its plan of the 2009 of 216 tons.

Until March the Forest Company of the county counts in its to have with the delivery of four thousand sacks of coal, that is to say four of the 12 containers of the program to turn in the year.

The Company possesses three load centers and classification of the merchandise, which stands out to fulfill the international indicators of quality and presentation.

This natural product is appreciated highly in the European countries in the cooking of foods and to counteract the effects of the cold among other uses. At the moment are carried out studies to apply it in cosmetics.

The vegetable coal, as natural product, doesn't affect the environment, at the same time that contributes to diminish the marabout, main plant used for this end in the biggest island of the Antilles.( María Socarrás H. )

Camagüey opens space to the visual arts

A sample of visual arts will be open today in the capital city with 54 authors' works that in its majority were students or professors of the Vocational School of Art Luis Casas Romero.

Dedicated to the anniversary 30 of the facility, the exhibition will be inaugurated in the gallery of the centric street Republic.

The convocation of the exhibition inserts the suggestion of donating the pieces to the museum Ignacio Agramonte, materialized by means of goods like the painting, sculpture, ceramic, mixed technique and photographs, the creations attest dissimilar topics, styles and expressive resources approached by several generations.

The panoramic approaches from the classic academic norms until the naturalness to break up with the traditional canons, and illustrates, in a partial way, a part of becoming of the visual arts in the territory.

One of the attractiveness of the encounter is the presence of testimonies of five persons of Camagüey seated in Havana, Agustín Bejarano, Franklin Álvarez, Alain Pine, José Antonio Hechavarria and Manuel Alcaide.

The opening act will include the delivery of recognitions to founders of the professorial cloister of the educational institution, among them, Gabriel Gutiérrez, Osvaldo Rodríguez Petit, Alberto La Red, Yolanda Ulloa and Juan Jiménez, equally reflected in the sample.

The entity Luis Casas Romero takes the name of a deceased of Camagüey that was mambí, musical composer, director of bands and founder - in 1922 in Havana -, of 2LC o'clock, first radio station with a stable programming in Cuba.

That facility is the initial stage of the system of professional artists' formation in the county, where in the sector there is also a school of half level, and the biggest branch in the Superior Institute of Art inside the country. (Adolfo Silva Silva / AIN).