Tegucigalpa, Jun 23.- In his first internationalist experience, Cuban doctor Angel La O valued his integration into the rapid response teams, a piece of the health mechanism with which Honduras is currently facing the Coviod-19 pandemic.
Born 31 years ago in the eastern city of Bayamo, the doctor told Prensa Latina via whatsapp about his experiences in confronting the new coronavirus in Honduras, from his arrival on April 19 to date.
The municipalities of Villanueva, La Lima and Santa Cruz de Yojoa, near San Pedro Sula, the industrial capital of the Central American country and the political capital of the northern department of Cortes, are part of the geography that a small group of Cuban doctors are working on every day in the area of prevention and health education.
We have saved lives, said the young doctor, referring to the Cuban group of four MGIs, a clinician and an epidemiologist who are tracking the presence of the coronavirus in the communities of that country, along with their Honduran colleagues.
Angel La O Portuondo, specialist in general integral medicine (MGI), changed in the last two months the assistance to emergencies in the polyclinic teacher Jimmy Hirzel, of the City of the Hymn, for a work focused on the prevention of the lethal disease that shocks the world, and the location of cases of contagion with the SARS-Cov-2.
The work includes case reporting, timely treatment of patients with shortness of breath, and indication of urgent transfers to the planned care centers.
In Honduras, the protocol for dealing with the pandemic establishes that patients who are asymptomatic or who have manifestations similar to those of a common flu should be isolated in their own homes, he explained.
(Cubaminrex-Prensa Latina)