Cuba participates in Nicaragua's International Health and Technology Fair

Edited by Catherin López
2024-08-18 12:59:21

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Cuba participates in Nicaragua's International Health and Technology Fair

Managua, August 18 (RHC) Cuba participates in the 2nd International Health and Technology Fair held in Nicaragua, with the participation of more than 120 technology distributors and pharmaceutical companies from around the world.

 At the Olof Palme Convention Center, the venue of the event, the Caribbean nation, represented by the Medical Services of the Revolutionary Armed Forces with means produced by the Union of Military Industries, exhibited two interesting pieces of equipment developed in recent years.

The equipment is designed to improve the qualitative and quantitative examination of pilots, divers and submariners in the field of aviation and underwater medicine.

The coordinator of research and development of the company Grito de Baire of the Union of Military Industries Bárbaro Socarrás, explained in statements to Prensa Latina that the first equipment is a computerized rotating chair to check disorders of the vestibular system.

"It has to do with the diagnostic evaluation of disorders of the vestibular function, which is one of the most important organs in spatial balance," he said.

He added that the other equipment is a tilting bed whose function is the diagnostic exploration of the autonomic nervous system through a group of tests that are internationally designed and others incorporated by the practice of Cuban doctors.

Socarrás stressed the importance of participating in this fair and commented that the equipment exhibited by Cuba makes an incursion in the referred medical diagnostics with excellent results.

In this sense, the official emphasized that the goal is to achieve that both devices can have an impact on the diagnosis of the Cuban population. "In clinical terms, the first device will be distributed to several hospitals in our country in the National Health System and will be used in the clinical field for the topographic diagnosis of diseases affecting the vestibular system," he said.

Regarding the tilting bed, a high-resolution electrocardiography device, Socarrás said that it is currently undergoing clinical trials at the Military Hospital and the Sports Research Center in the Cuban capital. "This equipment is also very useful because it makes it possible to work or research and diagnose problems related to cardiovascular regulation," he stressed.

The II International Fair of Health and Technology began on Friday and ends tomorrow, as part of the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Military Medical Corps and the Nicaraguan Army.  (Source: Latin Press)



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