Regional diabetes centres

Area Partners   Project responsible Duration Project budget WDF contribution Fundación para la Diabetes contribution Project number

Cuba Ministry of Health, Cuba Fundación para la Diabetes, Spain Dr. O. Díaz Díaz July 2003 - Jan. 2008 EUR 453,500 EUR 159,750 EUR 159,750                             WDF02-020

Objective

The project aims to improve diabetes care in Cuba by completing the national network of Educational and Medical Care Centres for Diabetics (CEADs).

Expected impact

• Nine provincial diabetes centres will be established
• Over a 3 year period, around 102,000 people with diabetes will use the new diabetes centres
• 600 diabetes doctors will attend an additional 12,600 people with diabetes in their local communities per year
• The project aims to achieve a 10% reduction in diabetes related complications

Results to date

• The national reference CEAD, the National Institute of Endocrinology, has been renovated
• 6 out of the 8 new provincial clinics in the first phase of the project have been inaugurated, located in Santa Clara (Villa Clara); Las Tunas; Cienfuegos; The City of Havana; Bayamo (Granma Province) and Bauta (Havana Province)
• The two remaining clinics, in Camagüey and Ciego de Avila, are under finalisation and are expected to be inaugurated in 2007
• The second phase has begun: Locations for the construction of the remaining CEADs in Sancti Spiritus and Isla de la Juventud have been determined

Additional information on the project can be found here.

This page was last updated 11-9-2007 by sfh.wdf