The government of Contramaestre is identified with the need to offer a wide and deep look at the demographic dynamics, since it is a priority task, opportunely considered as such by the maximum direction of the State in Cuba.
Taking into account the current challenges in relation to the behavior of the demographic indicators of the territory: with low fertility rate and increasing tendency to population aging, the local government conceived a plan of integral actions, with several measures aimed at finding solutions with territorial projection and multisectoral intervention.
According to the Deputy Superintendent of Economy Leydis Cuello Mayán, the actions are focused on achieving progress in four objectives: firstly, the need to stimulate fertility in order to approach population replacement in a medium-term perspective, foreseeing an increase in the training of human capital in the specialties of gynecology-obstetrics, with 10, in neonatology, with 6 and in pediatrics with 3, all by 2024.
As part of the measures inherent to the aforementioned objective, other actions are planned to materialize, such as those related to repairing children’s circles with damage to refrigeration, laundry and kitchen equipment, marquetry, hydro-sanitary networks and the waterproofing of roofs, with the approval for this year of 3 million 500 thousand pesos for the “El Mambisito” daycare center.
Likewise, work will be carried out for the opening of a semi-boarding school in the Batey “América Libre” and for the start-up of three children’s homes to attend the infants of working mothers, taking into account the high demand for this type of service in popular councils such as Laguna Blanca, Bungo La Venta and Frank País.
The Contramaestre government’s efforts to address the demographic situation also include rehabilitating and preserving the homes of mothers with three or more children under 17 years of age, as well as the recovery in the last four-month period of this year of 6 parks for the healthy entertainment of children, adolescents and young people.
Other objectives include focusing on meeting the needs of the growing population aged 60 and over, and increasing the number of grandparents’ homes in the territory, identifying the Patricio Lumumba popular council as a priority in this type of service, due to the high number of long-lived people living there.
Other measures taken by the government of Contramaestre are related to the ways and means to stimulate the majority employment of people apt to work and to maintain an adequate quarterly balance of the employed force, which currently exceeds 37 thousand employees.
In Contramaestre, as in other Cuban territories, talking about the demographic panorama is a matter for reflection and to come up against many essential actions, hence the government’s objective is to evaluate in depth the causes that provoke internal and external exoduses of people, in order to reduce the flows, mitigate the depopulation of municipalities and migratory movements from rural areas to the cities, and outline policies that facilitate the participation of Cubans living abroad in Cuba’s socio-economic processes.
