• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Health and Medicine
• 03 / 19 / 2012

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The Provincial Hospital Universitario Doctor Gustavo Aldereguía Lima, located in Cienfuegos, achieved a 85% survival in intensive care, with this large number one indicator of the quality of services and the prestige of that institution.

According to information provided by the M.Sc. Dr. Belkys Rodriguez Llerena, head of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is considered as indicator of excellence, according to quality standards established by the medical center.

In the ICU serving about 700 patients a year, with an average length of stay between four and five days, the cost per graduate over two thousand 500 pesos. They get people with severe strokes and brain, skull fractures and multiple trauma, among other conditions, all life-threatening.

As in the rest of their counterparts in the country, the State allocates significant financial resources to ensure the training of personnel attending to the sick and provides proven drugs, without skimping on high costs come from the pharmaceutical industry of the Island acquired in the international market.

These figures illustrate the above statement are spending a month in excess of 60 thousand dollars, expendable employees, examinations, X-rays and drugs such as broad-spectrum antibiotics, blood products, nutrition solutions and anticoagulant low molecular weight.

Meanwhile, the wage behaves above the 44 thousand pesos a month, four thousand food and the use of electricity is about two thousand dollars, as used equipment for artificial ventilation and others showing vital signs patients. Add to this account the lights and air conditioning in the room.

From September 4, 1979 began to provide uninterrupted services to the ICU of Cienfuegos, not so far been deprived of assistance to any person for lack of economic resources and even without knowing that one day in the room cost to 599 pesos Cuban state, conquers the Caribbean socialism in the Greater Antilles.