Not a single hospital or policlinic has been closed in Cuba, and the current work-related reorganization is made to benefit the people, asserted Machado while addressing participants in the Provincial Conference of the National Union of Health Workers.

Several delegates coincided that a rigorous physical examination and the exchanges held between physicians and patients make it possible to establish a diagnosis, without having to turn to unnecessary lab tests, X-Rays, ultrasounds or even the more expensive and harmful Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Salvador Valdes, General Secretary of the Cuban Workers Confederation, said that the relocation of excess workers swelling the staff of some centers and institutions will have to be made with justice, tact, and the political explanation for its need.
For his part, Public Health Minister Roberto Tomas Morales explained that Cuban hospitals and policlinics have First World technology and that difficulties lie in the financial resources to keep them.