Guantanamo, Cuba. – While Hurricane Matthew affected 41 doctor´s offices in Maisi, this territory in the Cuban eastern end guarantees PHC in 60 constituencies.

Dr. Raul Margendie Moises, community family physician in La Mula, said that before the hurricane, they tried to preserve their belongings, but life was always the most important thing. They took care of all patients and do not regret neither dead nor injuries.

Epidemiological surveillance is a priority task in Maisi, where the insist on the compliance of the measures to prevent the spread of epidemics, though so far there are not any report of outbreaks of water or food-borne diseases.

The easternmost territory of Cuba has received the attention of the Health Department in Guantanamo, and they have supplied doctor´s offices with drugs and sterile material.

Telecommunications´ Recovering Advances in Baracoa

The speed in the re-establishment of telecommunications in Baracoa, after the passage of Hurricane Mathew is due to the help of more than 200 workers, who work in the most affected areas.

Some of those towns are the neighborhoods of La Punta and La Laguna, belonging to the La Asuncion Popular Council, and El Jamal demarcation, the second important urban center of Baracoa.

The strategy speeds the progress in recovering tasks, allowing the telephone service to operate at first necessity sites as well as the Wi-Fi zone in Baracoa and the rest of the municipalities affected by the hurricane.

Reina Elvia Labañino, territorial director of the Company of Telecommunications of Cuba in Guantanamo, acknowledged the effort and initiative of the brigades in solving the problems.

Shipping of Household Supplies

The Artequip Company in the central province of Villa Clara produces dishes, buckets and other plastic items, bound for the Guantanamo towns devastated by Hurricane Matthew.

Currently that industry works on the completion of the items that will be shipped through the railroad toward eastern Cuba.

As part of the aid of the Artequip Company from Villa Clara to areas affected by Matthew, that center already sent to Las Tunas 15 thousand meters of plastic hose and 600 pipes for hydraulic networks, while they prepare another similar batch for Granma.
Workers in that industry expressed their willingness to run productions that are necessary to help those people affected by the meteorological event.