SANTO DOMINGO.-Más de un centenar de técnicos y profesionales dominicanos que laboran en diferentes hospitales públicos recibirán capacitación especial en vigilancia, laboratorio y manejo de la leptospirosis por expertos cubanos, invitados por la Secretaría de Salud Pública.

La actividad docente se iniciará este martes, desde la 9:00 de la mañana, en el Centro de Medicina Avanzada Dominico-Japonés (CEMADOJA) y se extenderá hasta el miércoles; mientras que los días jueves, viernes y sábado en los hospitales del Moscoso Puello, Luis Eduardo Aybar, Robert Read Cabral y Plaza de la Salud.

También, los trabajadores de la salud del centros asistencial del Marcelino Vélez Santana, Cabral y Báez, Arturo Grullón, Toribio Bencosme, San Vicente de Paúl y Morillo King, recibirán las orientaciones, organizada por las Direcciones de Epidemiología y de Hospitales de la SESPAS y la Organización Panamericana de la Salud.

La iniciativa tiene como objetivo articular un plan estratégico de trabajo a partir de las enseñanzas recibida por los expertos cubanos, para luego aplicarla en el fortalecimiento de la capacidad nacional de vigilancia y respuesta a la leptopirosis humana y de la población.

Parte de los temas que se abordarán tienen que ver con "La leptospirosis humana en el mundo", a cargo de la doctora cubana Carmen Fernández; "Antecedentes y situación actual de la leptospirosis en la República Dominicana", a cargo de la dominicana, Raquel Pimentel, mientras que la cubana Lilian María Ortega Gómez, expondrá sobre "Epidemiología de la leptospirosis humana y Clínica de la leptospirosis", y sobre "Diagnóstico serológico por MAT", disertará el doctor José Rodríguez, también de origen cubano.

Otros aspectos que serán abordados son los referentes al sentido Clínico sobre Leptospirosis Humana, Complicaciones y Tratamiento, Experiencia Epidemiológica en República Dominicana, Sistemas de Información Geográfica y su aplicación en las enfermedades transmisibles y vacuna contra leptopirosis humana, entre otros temas relacionados con el mal, que ha ocasionado decenas de muertes en el país.

Time to Get a life!

actually, I am at work right now. What does yumnuk mean ?
is it your name? was you born the doctor said yum NUK

thanks for posting Max

You have no trouble making ends meet. Your foot is always in your mouth!

Yumnuk:

Y que fue?

Why did you you tear into Max after he posted an obviuos enrichment to our medical forces?

Because it came from Cuba?

No entiendo...

Check out His first post.

I find that Dominican are very ignorant
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Damn Max??!!

What's up with that??

I just verified that Yum's assertion is correct??


What was the purpose of that post?

Purge aims to halt Cuba's economic free fall
Cuba's sweeping overhaul of its Cabinet affected mostly the economic team.
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BY FRANCES ROBLES AND WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA
frobles@MiamiHerald.com

Cuba's new Cabinet members named in a surprise political shake-up last week are a cadre of unknowns who share a history of cracking down on waste and running a tight ship.

The sweeping Cabinet shuffle underscores Cuban leader Raúl Castro's eagerness to bring military-style discipline to an economy that a top U.S. intelligence official recently called ``a basket case.''

Facing a $10 billion hurricane destruction tab, soaring food prices and declining revenue, Castro wiped out nearly his entire economic team, sacking some of the country's most visible rising stars.

Theories abound -- some contradictory -- about why most of the ministers dismissed were in the economic arena. Some experts say Castro sought to purge loyalists to former head of state Fidel Castro, getting rid of the people who may have stood in the way of reforms. Others suspect that Raúl Castro simply wanted to restructure his government, tackling economic problems by first tightening up the country's massive bureaucracy.

This much is clear: Cuba's economy is in a free fall. And as Raúl Castro finally steps out of his brother Fidel's shadow by putting his own team in place, he must soon take drastic measures to reverse the slide.

''The year coming to an end has been without doubt one of the most difficult since the special period began,'' then-Economy Minister José Luis Rodríguez told the National Assembly at the end of 2008, referring to the era of economic crisis that followed the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

Rodríguez was among 10 officials fired on Monday.

The economy is going so badly that Raúl Castro cut travel spending in half and stopped offering bonuses and other perks to government workers.

In the last hurricane season, Cuba suffered several devastating storms. The recovery bill came as the nation paid a record $710 million for food imports to the United States alone -- a 61 percent rise in a single year.

The majority of ministries affected by the shake-up were related to food-buying.

The government has said it expects the economy to grow by 4.3 percent this year -- about half the earlier government forecast of 8 percent. Castro has been busy traveling the world, seeking to diversify Cuba's financing so the nation is not so dependent on Venezuela. Castro has inked deals with China, Iran, Russia, Brazil and oil-producing nations.

Although tourism and some exports were up last year, the price of Cuba's top export -- nickel -- dropped by 41 percent, and the cost of imports increased by more than 50 percent.

The island imports more than 80 percent of what it consumes, and efforts to increase domestic production have failed.

''Raúl Castro inherited a legacy of complete neglect -- not benign neglect,'' said Miami economist Jorge Sanguinetty, who monitors Cuba's economy. ``Raúl Castro has to be very worried. Cuba is in a very precarious situation.''

The Cabinet changes affected the ministers of foreign trade, foreign investment, food industry, finance and prices, domestic trade, and iron and steel industry. Two of those ousted, Rodríguez and Vice President Carlos Lage, were linked to the transformation and economic planning that began in 1990 as a result of the collapse of the socialist camp........It will soon be over for these murderous swine who have enslaved the Cuban people for 50 years ...VIVA CUBA LIBRE