Camagüey finished the vaccination against Influenza A (H1N1)

As successful was qualified the vaccination against the Influenza A (H1N1) in this county, to the closing of second o'clock and last stage. The figure foreseen in a first court of people conceived by groups of risk overcame the expectations amply when being immunized more than 76 thousand of people of Camagüey.

The doctor Rita María Ferrán, vicedirector of Transferable Illnesses of the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology (CPHEM), gave to know that in spite of such results, the hygienic measures continue as via of first order to prevent the illness and that as in the rest of the country, the county has the medications, hospital institutions and workers of the sector required to face the pandemic.

All this without forgetting the imperious necessity that once affected the person with a sharp breathing infection (ANGER) early should go to the doctor, and to stop to attend the educational or labor centers, as it is the case.

The doctor Ferrán assured that the used inoculation, the Pandemrix of the Glaxo Smithkline, donated by the OMS/OPS and obtained with fractioned virus and inactivated, produced the common adverse reactions as in any other vaccine.(Olga Lilia Vilató)

Camagüey applies with success the corneal refractive surgery with laser

The application of the corneal refractive surgery with laser constitutes an achievement of the oftalmologic discipline in the Provincial Hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech, and puts of relief the results of the territory of Camagüey in the operations of that type.

The Doctor Elías Cardoso, boss of that specialty in Camagüey, explained that the technique is very expensive, of having proven effectiveness, and facilitates the treatment of the refractive defects known by Myopia, Hypermetropia and Astigmatism.

Cardoso also aimed that the resource offers better covering to the affected area, diminishes the postoperative nuisances, at the same time that recognized the competition of the oculists trained in that to proceed surgical.

A hundred of people has recovered the vision from the beginning of the last year of the corneal refractive surgery in the Oftalmologic Center of Camagüey, and at the moment the diagnosis of the patients was increased with visual affectation in the initial stages of the illness, what facilitates bigger success in the surgical intervention. (Alexander López Almaguer.)

Students of medicine of Camagüey celebrated Argentina`s Bicentennial

Tribune of solidarity with Cuba and with the fair causes of the planet became the celebration in the University of Medical Sciences Carlos J. Finlay of this county of the Bicentennial of the beginning of the emancipated gestes in Argentina, happened fact on May 25 ,1810.

The Argentinean youth Juan Tejerina, third year student, said that this date doesn't only inaugurate the one on the way to the independence in its country, but rather it is also associated to the fights in Latin America against the Spanish colonialism.

It is moving to celebrate it in Cuba, in the earth where was consecrated the Che like revolutionary, underlined the future physician.

During the antimperialist meeting, scholarship holders of several nationalities also expressed their back to the Puerto Rican students that continue challenging to the government's American neocolonial prepotency, and refuse to that the public education disappears in the small Caribbean island.

Equally one mentioned to the anniversary 47 of the creation of the African Union and students of that continent thanked to Cuba for their contribution internationalist to the independence of Angola, Ethiopia, Namibia and finally of the Apartheid in Sudáfrica.

The Argentinean students dedicated to the bicentennial of the beginning of the independentist geste, an exhibition of crafts, musical instruments and typical suits of the southern country, and made a demonstration of dances as the samba-cueca and the emblematic tango.

In the “Carlos J Finlay”, of Camagüey, are formed as professionals more than 300 youths coming from the Republic of Argentina.