Introduction:

SAR-CoV2 belongs to the Coronavirus genus and is transmitted by respiratory route. In Cuba, professional training is a key component of the healthcare system to ensure the quality and relevance of its actions; with an imperative need to prepare all medical personnel to face this health emergency.

Objective:

to assess the impact of professional training and its contribution in facing COVID-19 at Leon Cuervo Rubio Clinical-Surgical Teaching Hospital in the year 2020.

Methods:

an observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out from March to September 2020 at Leon Cuervo Rubio Clinical-Surgical Teaching Hospital, in Pinar del Rio; where the target group coincided with the sample of 667 workers being trained to face COVID-19 in the province, where it was necessary to train the teaching staff, and starting from the diagnosis of their potentials a training course was developed.

Results:

the training course was continuous and staggered, intended for professional personnel, in correspondence with the periodic updating of knowledge and learning needs. It was observed that there were no deaths in spite of having severe patients and only 0,15 % of the professionals who worked with these patients became infected.

Conclusions:

it was proved that most of the professionals after the training course have a sufficient level of knowledge in relation to COVID-19, which allowed during the first two waves of the disease a work of excellence, achieved with the training course.

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