Outstanding benefits of Mental Health Centers of Camagüey

By:Adolfo Silva Silva

The Centers of Mental Health (CSM) have contributed to reduce the necessity of revenues substantially in the psychiatric hospital Major René Vallejo,declared the doctor Jorge Balseiro, director of the center.

The specialist dialogued in this city in the closing of a Biennial of the Arts and the Mental Health, taken place in the municipalities of Camagüey and Guáimaro with incorporate patients to musical activities, would dance and of handmade works.

Balseiro highlighted that the CSM is one of the influential causes in the decrease, of more than 800 at 386, of the quantity of beds in the hospital entity, a decision without attempting against the quality and effectiveness of the medical attendance.

The also psychiatrist Yohany Chirino underlined the advantages of those units, promoters of the social reinsertion of sick, starting from the concept of the alone hospital intern in absolutely indispensable circumstances.

Chirino mentioned the characteristics of the ambulatory treatment, extensive to sick chronic, with the support of specialists and of the society--included cultural and recreational activities--that which also propitiates a smaller psicofarmacs use.

Among the effective programs in this respect figure the relatives to the alcoholism and the drugs, prevention and control of the suicidal behavior, community rehabilitation, bigger adult, and violence.

The 12 CSM are distributed in almost all the municipalities of the county, one of the pioneers in applying in Cuba the projects of social reinsertion of psychiatric patient.