Productive day in polyclinic in Bahia Honda

Artemisa, Cuba – Settlers , administrative leaders and combatants joined Saturday to a day of work to promote the constructive work of the hospitalization service in Manuel Gonzalez Díaz polyclinic, in Bahia Honda.

Yamina Duarte, municipal director of Public Health, said that 40 beds are planned to be distributed among Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Gyneco-Obstetrics wards . “This is the only one of its kind in the province. Before they were called polyclinics with beds and there are very few in the country, “Duarte said.

The work s the result of 23 reiterated complains . During the process we have explained to the people the actions carried out and asked for their cooperation, said Lázaro Zorrilla, president of the Municipal Assembly of People’s Power.

The work began in 2011 and was stopped because of lack of financing. In February 2016 it was decided to provide 750,000 pesos and it should be completed in 2017.

The investment, in charge of the brigade 01 from Bahía Honda, belonging to the Artemisa Integral Construction Company, has delays with the acquisition of blocks, steel, hydrosanitary networks and slabs, but it has been solved.

At the end of December, the main building, consisting in a clinical laboratory, emergency room, municipal intensive area, ultrasonography, among other benefits, has to be completed.

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