"This is a dream and what good would that Fidel knew how happy we neighbors of the Popular Council of Boniato are, when seeing transformed that small medical station he visited one year on People's Power elections, in this brand new Ernesto Che Guevara Emergency Polyclinic ".
No one imagined that the place where that unit was lived a family, only assisting emergency and dentistry services, is available now with almost 800 meters 60 square of rooms for medical care.
If hard is that after the demolition of the place to start from scratch building, not a few inconsistencies went through the investment process, it mean that once included among the works of the 62 anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and the 500 years of Santiago town, nobody doubted that now it would end.
Therefore, among the happiest people he is also the newly appointed director of the center, Dr. Yadila Alvarez Ruiz, related from childhood with the facility where he trained as a specialist in general medicine, and who asserts that the community is anxiously awaiting the opening.
"Well , she notes, we will have a an emergency with eight beds for care and observation of the severe patients, dentistry service, clean and dirty bandages , vaccination, aerosol, X-rays, ultrasound, electrocardiogram, sterilization and laboratories clinical and of microbiology.
"None of the 31. 000 residents of the council, she adds, will have to travel more than three kilometers to Santiago de Cuba, to receive such attention, which in some cases will operate 24 hours, and to ensure them that we have a generator, air conditioning in the and that require local telephone intercom. "
In such benefits should be added that the opening of the main building of the polyclinic will allow eliminate overcrowding and thus improve the functioning of comprehensive physical rehabilitation services, which were conditioned rooms for external consultations, which will now go to another place previously adapted.
Two weeks of celebration, a tour can verify the veneer with white tiles throughout the interior, the aluminum and glass placed, good prevailing lighting, gray tiled floor as a whole, and especially the constant bustle of Men Works Construction Enterprise Architecture No. 58.
"We are putting the finishing touches -precise the head of the work, Alberto Martinez Hechavarría-, and resources here there is no justification for violating the commitment to the quality required by a health center, where for the waterproofing of the deck to the floor, goes through a rigorous examination. "
According to Felix Ramos Palacios, investor of the Municipal Department of Health, "we are on site to provide any resource gap and go solve them, as we have done in the municipalities of Guamá, Tercer Frente, and where it has been required in this city, because we cannot fail the community. "
Therefore, many hours spent in the sun Jorge Luis Robert waterproofing, while Alcides Prendes, Roberto Odio and Santiago Gómez tiled corridors and locals, René Rivera just rested in the preparation of the bitumen, and Dr. Angela Otero, director in the last five years multiplied before leaving for international missions.
The commitment also demonstrates that projects undertaken are not unique to the city, so much work has been done in other parts of the board itself, as the heights of Puerto Boniato, where homes, restaurant and other facilities damaged by Hurricane Sandy were renovated.