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We
have every confidence in youth
● Affirms Vice President Machado
Ventura during a tour
of the eastern provinces
• LAS TUNAS.-José Ramón Machado
Ventura, first vice president of the Councils of
State and Ministers, ratified in this eastern city
the full confidence of the country's maximum
leadership in Cuban youth, having assured himself
that they are working well and fulfilling the role
that corresponds to them.
Going more deeply into the
subject, Machado Ventura criticized those who
incorrectly judge the new generations on the basis
of isolated negative attitudes that have nothing in
common with the overall work of youth, during a
dialogue with members of the Union of Young
Communists at the Doctor Ernesto Guevara Hospital, a
health facility visited by the member of the
Political Bureau with Teresa Amarelle Boué, first
secretary of the Communist Party in the province.
"If young people are not doing
more," he emphasized, "it is because we, with more
age and experience, do not always ask it of them or
fail to give them better leadership guidance or
direction in tasks that are needed. For that reason
we can corroborate that we have every confidence in
them."
The tour of the hospital and of
the Guillermo Tejas polyclinic not only confirmed
the decisive presence of young people in the sector,
but also their leadership role in concrete savings
alternatives and the optimum use of medical
instruments and equipment.
In Granma province, talking with
health workers in Manzanillo, Yara and Bayamo,
Machado Ventura explained how important it is to
make good use of costly medical
equipment acquired by the country
by guaranteeing its use only in cases requiring it
but without reducing the quality of patient care.
At the Celia Sánchez Hospital in
Guacanayabo, he appreciated the condition of a
computerized axial tomograph, whose radiation
transmitter tube (at a cost of approximately
$50,000) is still functioning despite having been
used for double the studies anticipated.
He saw another tomograph in
similar conditions and a machine for diagnosing
osteoporosis in the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
hospital in Bayamo, which he inaugurated in 1967 and
since then, has multiplied the quantity and quality
of its services.
He was accompanied by Luis
Virelles Barreda, first secretary of the Communist
Party in Granma, and Jesús Infante López, president
of People's Power in the province.
IN MATANZAS
The Cuban first vice president
also visited health facilities in the western
province of Matanzas, where he reaffirmed the
importance of increasing efficiency and rationality
in the use of human and material resources within
the sector, as the only way of "being able to count
on a sustainable health system."
"Even at moments of crisis we
will not close any hospital, as is the case in the
capitalist world, but it is essential to save
because, if we don't, we will not be able to
preserve the first world level of public health
exhibited by Cuba," he noted, speaking to directors
and workers at the José Ramón López Tabranes
Hospital. •
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