Rehabilitate in Camagüey patients with larynx cancer

Camagüey, - Patient with larynx radical for cancer, accidents or for other causes have the possibility articulate words again, by means of a rehabilitation system that spreads in the areas of health of the county.

The above-mentioned was confirmed by the doctor Antonio Hernández Vidal, specialist of Second Grade in Logopedy and Foniatry in declarations to Adelante.

People Laringectomized- assured--always have rehabilitation possibility that influences, among other factors, the age, the physical state and the reach of the tumor.

If the affection is detected on time and the person has will, the services of health assure to teach them to speak in each area of attention with Logopedas present in the Integral Services of Rehabilitation (SIR) dispersed in the geography of Camagüey.

One of the patients more led with the rehabilitation and who even, besides speaking, sings, Ángel Alipio Álvarez Martínez is 61 years old,residing in , , the city of Camagüey is named, with a larynx radical for nine years.

“Everything operated as me-he explained with clear voice-- can become rehabilitated, although has the desire that has the person.”

Lacking of that organ and of the vocal chords, Alipio, as more he is known in the social and family means, speaks with the esophagus, he carries out the other functions of to feed and to take water for the normal road, while he breathes for the windpipe.

The doctor Hernández Vidal doesn't have reference that this rehabilitation is carried out in United States, where prothesis of immediate larynx is used by the way expensive and with piles of little durability.

In Cuba when the possibilities are drained of reaching the voice for the rehabilitation it is required to that prothesis type, to which the bigger than The Antilles cannot consent easily for financial reasons and the North American blockade.(Enrique Atiénzar Rivero)