COVID-19 experience: dedication and love, accompanied by anguish, nostalgia and pain

ABSTRACT

The example of Cuba in the aspect of prevention, organization of services, control and constant monitoring (with daily public information) of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic at the population level is described as outstanding during all the months of battle. Despite the efforts made by the Ministry of Public Health, and the dignified and heroic work of health professionals in coordination with other sectors, as has happened at different times in most countries of the world, in Cuba The most complex period in the fight against the pandemic was experienced in the months of July and August 2021, with a high incidence of the Delta variant, when, in a context marked by insufficient financing and the increase in the international market of the cost of supplies, the country felt the shortage of medicines and other materials necessary for patient care. Describing the experience of Primary Health Care doctors around the tense situation of those moments is the objective of this work.