Holguín hospital’s maternity ward strengthens links with health areas
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The maternity ward of the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Teaching University Hospital in the province of Holguín is strengthening ties with the health area, with the aim of reducing the rates of prematurity and low birth weight in the eastern territory.
This hospital, where the highest number of births are recorded each year in Cuba, has an organized structure that allows the control of pregnant women in the 14 municipalities of the territory, Yasmina Ríos, a second-degree specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics and head of the section, told ACN.
She specified that a multidisciplinary team of experts analyzes weekly the high-risk cases associated with uterine growth restriction and gestational hypertensive disease, which contribute to the greatest health complications for both the mother and the child.
She specified that the link with the hospitals of Moa, Mayarí, Sagua and Banes is maintained, aimed at facilitating immediate attention to complex cases residing in rural and difficult-to-access areas.
Ríos pointed out that the health center has a follow-up consultation for the placement of prophylactic cervical cerclage in the event of a threatened abortion, when there is a risk that the cervix will open too early in pregnancy.
She explained that at the time a patient is discharged, she receives a medical report that summarizes her condition, indicating the conduct to follow in the health area for the follow-up of the woman and to bring the pregnancy to a successful conclusion.
Likewise, the care of serious and critical maternal illness and pregnancy in adolescence are also protocolized, included within the indicators of the Maternal-Child Care Program.
One in three Holguín residents is born at the Lenin Hospital. Its coordinated work of its specialists has allowed survival rates of over 95 percent to be maintained in cases of complications associated with pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. (Source: ACN)
