Obstetrics Congress for a safe reproductive process
The 17th Congress of the Cuban Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology will host from June 18-21 in this capital nearly 400 delegates, from 16 nations including Cuba, and important specialists in these fields.
The meeting that will take place in the Havana Convention Center will address issues related to maternal-fetal and perinatal medicine; obstetric violence; maternal morbidity and mortality; current diagnoses; sexual and reproductive health; the management of infertile couples, among others.
In a press conference at the headquarters of the National Council of Scientific Health Societies, Dr. Andres Breto Garcia, president of the Cuban Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and of the organizing committee, said that the message is to ensure that the reproductive process – for women and descendants – is of high quality and safe.
Speaking at the press conference, Dr. Omayda Safora Enriquez, secretary of the organizing and scientific committee, said that the novelty is that for the first time in the history of these events, this one will be devoted a topic (including a pre-congress course) to the medical-legal aspects of the specialty, due to the need and request of professionals that this topic be introduced and discussed.
We work with people, social beings, complex and diverse, and as such we have to face them. That is why this will give us many tools to approach and make us aware that medical care does not only include medicine, but also the family, the administrative sphere and, therefore, the legal part.
One deficiency,” he pointed out, “is that when we receive a complaint we realize that little information has been given, which often leads to nonconformities.
“It is necessary to provide truthful information at the opportune moment, neither before nor after. If there is any complication, whether it is resolved or not, the family must be informed. Someone on the medical team should take care of that.
He explained that the scientific program contemplates what has to do with the sexual and reproductive health of women; that is to say, from the girl (infantile-juvenile gynecology) to the middle age, the climacterium and menopause, going through the reproductive phase.
On the other hand, Dr. Jorge Peláez, president of the scientific committee, commented that the encounter takes place at a certain historical moment, “with the permanent aggressiveness of our enemies, the tense economic situation and an international machinery that tries to discredit our country before the world”.
He stressed the importance of a meeting of this type attended by high-level professors and noted that “for approval has been achieved to reach a high and prestigious number of foreign delegates.
The 17th Congress of the Cuban Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology will be preceded by 11 pre-congress courses, which will be developed through panels, round tables and interactive workshops. Professionals who are not delegates may also attend.
The presentations will take place through 18 free topics, 52 conferences, 139 poster topics, 7 symposiums, 17 round tables and 12 panels, with a broad international representation of professors from Latin America, Europe, the United States, and other nations.
(Taken from Trabajadores in Spanish)
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
