JOSE Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice president
of the Council of State and Ministers, and José
Ramón Balaguer, minister of public health, yesterday
congratulated the medical students who graduated as
doctors in 1959 for their work in training
subsequent generations.
Machado and Balaguer praised the contribution of
these professionals to Cuba’s current health
indicators.
Together with the graduates, the customary photo
was taken outside the former School of Medicine,
today the University of Havana’s Faculty of
Medicine.
José Miyar Barrueco, minister of science,
technology and the environment and likewise a
contemporary of those honored, also attended the
ceremony on the steps of the former medical school
to share the tribute with his former classmates.
During the event, the Revolution’s first medical
graduates spoke with directors and students from the
General Calixto García Teaching Hospital and Science
Faculty, an emblematic institution with respect to
the training of the "white-coat army."
Mario Delgado, director of the hospital,
expressed gratitude for the knowledge accrued in the
area of medicine over many years, and for fully
complying with the mission to change the panorama of
the sector as it existed in Cuba prior to January 1,
1959.
On behalf of the graduates, eminent orthopedist
Colonel Juan Luis Vidal Ramos recalled the historic
tradition of that hospital complex which – as
Balaguer also mentioned –reflected both the history
of Cuban medicine and that of the Revolution.
(AIN)
