In greeting to International Children's Day, the Cuban Program for early and comprehensive care for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) will receive the Eureka 2022 World Science Prize this Wednesday.

This award, sponsored by the World Council of Academics and University Researchers, constitutes an international recognition of projects, institutions and personalities that achieve scientific achievements with a humanistic approach.

The presentation of the award to the members of this project, developed by the national comprehensive care team of the Borrás-Marfán university pediatric hospital, in the Plaza de la Revolución municipality, will take place at the institution itself, by the president of the World Academic Council and University Researchers (COMAU) Orlando Terré Camacho.

Youth reports that this award, announced in Barranquilla, Colombia, on May 26, recognizes the contributions of the program in the implementation of comprehensive care for children with autism and their families with an interdisciplinary team, which evaluates and diagnoses quickly to intervene as early as possible with different therapies, seeking a better evolution of symptoms and management in the family.

He reports that the specialist in psychiatry and member of the project, Dr. Belkis Vidal, in statements to the Prensa Latina Agency, announced that among the main contributions of the program, a pioneer in Cuba on the subject, is the implementation of a specialized consultation and an intervention program and the integration of human, material and time resources, which makes the process more economical and efficient.

It also specifies that the coordinator of the project, the psychologist Yoysy Rondón, highlighted that they have achieved the digitization of medical records and are working on the creation of networks of professionals for comprehensive care with an interdisciplinary approach, as well as on raising awareness of the society.

She specified that another challenge of the initiative is to incorporate pedagogical professionals into the teams in order to provide other tools for diagnosis and help conceive how the child should go through the different stages of his life.

Acosta announced that they are working on the formation of teams for comprehensive care for neurodevelopmental disorders in four provinces of the country (Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Villa Clara, Matanzas) so that they become regional centers to support the territories closer in early detection and early care, so that each family has the opportunity to access this service.

Dr. Magaly Aguilar, another of the members of the work team, highlighted the novelties introduced by the program in terms of teamwork between different medical specialties.

The initiative of the Havana hospital arose when the country was facing the Covid-19 pandemic and among its research results it showed that in the period the children had a lower possibility of developing their personality due to the limitations for socialization imposed by the quarantines. and mobility restrictions.

The team of specialists at the Borrás-Marfán hospital will receive this Wednesday the Eureka Best Practices Award, which in its 2022 edition also recognized the Central Institute of Pedagogical Sciences and a collaboration project with the United Nations Fund for Children in the Investigative Group section.

Doctors Maydel Anguiera, Olivia García and Julio Conil, from the University of Pinar del Río, were also awarded with the Academic Products distinction, concludes JR.