The easternmost territory of Camagüey holds products of the Ultra Micro Analytical System (SUMA, in Spanish) Technology, a service through which early kidney diseases, incipient diabetic neuropathy and cardiovascular alterations are detected in type 1 and 2 diabetic patients.
This technological assurance available in the municipality facilitates the Public Health staff to apply the therapeutic measures and control and verify through a thorough follow-up, the effectiveness of the treatment.
The Tecnosuma Laboratory of the Municipal Hospital "Armando Enrique Cardoso", has the diagnostician Umelisa Microalbumin, useful for quantifying small amounts of human albumin in urine samples. If this test shows that the person is beginning to have a kidney problem, he or she can receive treatment before the condition gets worse.
According to research results, the main risk groups in the population to present this type of clinical situation are: children under five, adults over 50, obese citizens, underweight, with a history of low birth weight, smokers, pregnant women, patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease, macroangiopathy, and patients with dyslipidemia who are abnormal values in fat and blood fatty acids.
In Guaimaro, as throughout the country, specialists and institutions, contribute to promoting, caring for and protecting health, fulfilling, day by day, in order to strengthen the love for life, that according to the playwright and French actor Moliere is "The Most powerful of human weaknesses."