Massiel Machado Diaz

Primary Health Care in Cuba vis-a-vis COVID-19 Massiel Machado Diaz

Primary Health Care in Cuba is the main link in preserving the health of the population, playing a fundamental role in the face of disasters and special epidemiological situations such as the pandemic that is currently attacking the world with a high morbidity and mortality rate. It is up to family medicine and especially to the doctors and nurses who make up the basic health team working in the communities to create strategies to identify suspected cases and their rapid evaluation in order to take the right course of action, to identify the psychological effects created by fear and ignorance of the new and unknown, to guide the population on the necessary measures of protection and prevention to prevent the spread in the communities and to maintain attention to the prioritized programs while respecting the confinement and social distancing. To my colleagues, anonymous heroes, I pay homage with this book.