Camagüey, June 14.– With notable results, several researchers from Camagüey recently participated in the twenty-third national workshop of the Comprehensive Care Program for Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcers, where advances in the specialty were analyzed.
Dr. Raúl Enrique Romay Buitrago, a first and second degree specialist in angiology and vascular surgery, highlighted that the main purpose of the meeting, each year, is to evaluate the evolution or development of research where the province closed at ninety-one percent in in 2023 and 86 in the first quarter of 2024, which places it in fifth and sixth place, respectively, at the country level.
The very close assistant professor also explained that an average of eight hundred and fifty patients are included annually in the program, a figure, he added, that varies depending on the terms of inclusion worldwide and the characteristics of each territory.
In Camagüey, it is analyzed based on its population, its number of diabetics, the number of amputations, the consumption of bulbs by each patient in what is called a therapeutic scheme, among other factors.
It also transpires that, in complex conditions with limitations of supplies such as gauze, bandages, transportation, guidelines are drawn up that are planned to be analyzed at the International Congress aimed at comprehensive care for patients with diabetic foot ulcers scheduled to be held from the first to the fifth. September in Varadero.
The workshop also advocated for prevention and in general the complications of diabetes mellitus and the cardiac, cerebral and other effects derived from this condition.
Dr. Raúl Enrique Romay Buitrago also highlighted that, together with other professionals, he is pursuing a master’s degree in medical humanities on the quality of life of diabetic patients with ulcers who have been treated and their evolution and insertion into society.
In these purposes, he recognized as one of the main strengths the links with the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and the University of Medical Sciences to support the program for comprehensive care.
He added that all students interested in the topic who develop research programs and contribute to obtaining primary data and processing them are included.
The provincial coordinator of the project in the province and head of the provincial group of the specialty of angiology and national member of the same also said that the workshop and the collateral events of the discipline advocate the advantages of HEBERPROT P and the projections to improve the indicators of the Comprehensive Care Program for Patients with diabetic foot ulcers. (Text and photo: Gladys Dailyn Morera Cordero/RCA)
