Cargando...On December 30, 2023, everyone could have gotten so close to the tree that they couldn’t see the forest when they arrived at the Mariana Grajales Gynecobstetric University Hospital in Santa Clara, in search of large-scale works to pay tribute to the feat of the first Thursday of 1959.
No gigantic factory was inaugurated, such as the so-called Planta Mecánica, or the colossal INPUD, which provided every Cuban household with at least one household appliance, or the huge Desembarco del Granma textile factory.
It is much more modest than any of these buildings, but it is a place where they have taken part of the parking lot to make life more bearable with benches and bathrooms in a building where the harsh sun or the quiet night and early morning will not punish those waiting for a birth.
Those who know or have suffered the hardships of sitting on the ground, looking for shade in places far from comfortable, will make the best assessment of this facility, which has an ID card office to register newborns.
But one thing has not changed: The main authors of all these works were the workers, both in the construction sector and in other activities, who supported them.
The Industrial Military Company Batalla de Santa Clara, dedicated to the production of containers, packaging and plastic articles, with the support of the Empresa Planta Mecánica Fabric Aguilar Noriega, was associated with the company that built the Pequeños Guerrilleros Children’s House.
Although the Casita will be completed next April with a capacity for 50 infants, it already has 30 children of working mothers.
Empresa de Electromecánica workers also benefited two apartment buildings on the Carretera Central, Esperanza, by installing curbs, sidewalks and paving the access road.
Anyone who travels through the area on a regular basis will certainly be grateful to these partners for the urbanization work that has been done, which will allow them to walk more comfortably without having to negotiate slopes, puddles and mud, or the dust raised by the wind.
These are details, but they are in addition to the Futuros Constructores Children’s Playhouse, the hope for a playground and a bio-healthy playground, and the restoration of the La Popular Recreation Center and the Casa de Abuelos.
None of the plants inaugurated or reopened can match the magnitude of the Ernesto Che Guevara Electronic Components Company, founded in 1980 to develop microelectronics in the country, or Ciegoplast, inaugurated in Ciego de Avila in 1999 to produce high-density polyethylene pipes.
Also, the collective of workers of the local development project dedicated to the rescue of clinical furniture Reluxes Herrería, from Santa Clara, gave their contribution to the Maternal Home No. 1 of Santa Clara, located in Doble Vía, with a capacity for 25 pregnant women.
The Hogar is located in a facility that has been adapted for these functions, so in addition to repairing the beds and other furniture, they remodeled the building with privacy in the bathrooms, improved the plumbing and separated the administrative part from the living areas of the pregnant women.
All the works for the advent of 2025 were very sensitive, but the trade union movement of Villa Clara is dealing with one of the government’s priorities related to the care of vulnerable people and wanderers.
The William Darias Health Center, in the La Movida community, a few meters from the Central Highway (Placetas Band), will be inaugurated in the next few days and will have a capacity of 40 beds, although it will start with 14 beds and resources for internal and semi-internal regimes with medical assistance and other services.
While the very difficult year of 2024 was coming to an end and the current year of 2025 was approaching, the trade union movement in Villa Clara was carrying out works that, although not as colossal as those of other times, were still gigantic because they were the result of the miracle that could only be achieved through hard work.
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Licenciado en Periodismo y licenciado en Ciencias Sociales, autor de El Foro en Cubahora, jubilado y reincorporado en la Redacción Digital de Trabajadores, donde escribe las secciones LA GUAGUA y EN 500 CARACTERES, fue corresponsal del periódico Vanguardia en tres de las seis regiones de Las Villas, Jefe de Redacción fundador del periódico Escambray, Corresponsal Jefe de la Agencia de Información Nacional (actual ACN) en Sancti Spiritus, colaborador de Radio Progreso, Prensa Latina y Radio Sancti Spíritus; así como Jefe de Información, Subdirector y Director del periódico Vanguardia, donde administró sus foros de discusión.
