Cuban president begins visit to central province of the country

 

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Feb 20 (ACN) In the northern municipality of Quemado de Güines, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the country Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez began today a tour of socio-economic objectives in the central province of Villa Clara.

Accompanied by Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PCC and Secretary of Organization, the Cuban leader arrived in the 7th district of the El Perejil Popular Council, a community in transformation process since October 2021.

This locality, which today has a total of 1,080 houses, has undergone important investments, such as the repair of internal roads, the rehabilitation of the family medical office, the creation of a children's micro-park, the installation of public pumps for water supply and the establishment of a point of sale of agricultural products.

During his exchange with residents of the district, Diaz-Canel pointed out that in communities with families in vulnerable situations, indiscriminate assistance should not be implemented, but to provide support only to those who really need it and to train those who are able to work for self-support.

He also insisted on the improvement of the urbanization and ornamentation of the town to offer greater comfort to the residents; while he warned about the need to maintain, as up to now, practically zero criminal acts.

The visit also included a tour of the areas of the Martires del 8 de abril polyclinic, where there are currently 531 people working and 23 consulting rooms, a dental clinic, a grandparents' home and a mental health center.

He also visited the Quemado de Güines Agroindustrial Company, a new type of entity that, in addition to food production, is undertaking a recovery plantain cultivation program with promising clones resistant to Sigatoka, a disease that extinguished a large part of the banana-growing areas in Lugardita, once the largest productive enclave in the central region.