The Public Health sector in the easternmost region of Camagüey brings its grain of sand to the state's Tarea Vida program, a priority for the country's environmental policy and sustainable development, aimed at counteracting the negative effects of climate change.
Within the 11 tasks of the program, the medical union has direct involvement in six, aimed, among other things, at reducing the vulnerability of the built heritage.
Among the actions already materialized stand out the development of scientific research aimed at knowing the impact of climate change on the geography of Guáimaro, as well as the increasing linkage of the students of the University of Medical Sciences, health personnel and other specialists with the causes, consequences and control of arbovirosis and acute respiratory and diarrheal infections.
They also highlight the implementation of other activities such as the strengthening of the epidemiological surveillance system at all levels of medical care, a strict inspection of food to ensure its safety and the constant sampling of water sources in the municipality, the latter linked to the availability and efficient use of the vital liquid, as part of the drought confrontation.
It is evident the priority that Tarea Vida receives by the government of the Island, for which, as part of the Plan of the Economy for this ‘2019’, 945 million 514 thousand 769 pesos were allocated to the financing of the initiative.
The Cuban State is the only one in the world that has adopted a Plan to counteract the effects of climate change, in which it involves sectors as essential as public health.
Tarea Vida also represents a challenge in the face of the US blockade that hinders the introduction of technologies for the development of important operations and access to sources of financing to undertake high-cost environmental projects.