Guantanamo – Fourteen foreign students from the Latin American School of Medicine are completing their academic and professional training at the University of Medical Sciences of Guantanamo, where they are preparing to take the state exam for the Medicine degree this July.
The students come from three Caribbean countries, the same number of African nations, two from Oceania and one from the Middle East.
By countries, the potential graduates are five from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, two from Burundi and one each from Bahamas, Jamaica, Solomon Islands, Palau, Palestine, Sierra Leone and South Sudan.
According to Yamilka Pelegrin Amondaray, an official of the University’s General Secretariat, the graduates will receive their respective Doctor of Medicine degrees on July 22nd during a ceremony to be held at the University’s Ibrahim Ganen Prats Theater.
With the new batch of doctors, the historic number of foreign graduates in Guantanamo will reach 778 doctors of more than 40 nationalities, who today provide care in clinics, medical posts, hospitals and research centers in their respective communities of origin.
The graduation ceremony of the new foreign health professionals will be dedicated to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, historic leader of the Revolution, who dreamed of a better world in his initiative to create in November 1999 the Latin American School of Medicine, an institution that strengthens medical care in several latitudes of the world, with more than 27 thousand graduated physicians from some 90 countries.
Translated and edited by Dayla Perez Ortiz.
