Guantanamo.-Dedicated to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, historic leader of the Revolution, who had the initiative to create the Latin American School of Medicine in November 1999, thirteen students of other nationalities received their medical degrees this Tuesday at the University of Medical Sciences of Guantanamo.
The graduates from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Burundi, Bahamas, Jamaica, Solomon Islands, Palau, Palestine, Sierra Leone and South Sudan, showed their gratitude to their families and professors who contributed to their training for seven years.
Dr. Yanet del Carmen Perez Ferreiro, Rector of the university, said that the twentieth graduation is proof of the graduates’ ability to overcome language barriers, traditions and culture to build a world of brotherhood, peace and justice through medicine.
During the ceremony, seven young people were recognized with a gold degree and the most integral was Arnaud Juste Ndayizeye, a native of Africa who finished his sixth year with an academic index of 4.92 points and is a reference for his behavior, discipline, disposition and commitment to assume all the tasks.
The twentieth graduation of doctors of medicine of other nationalities, which took place at the Ibrahim Ganén Prats Theater of the University of Medical Sciences of Guantanamo, was honored with the presence of the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Fernando Gonzalez Llort, officials of the Party, the Government, and political and mass organizations, as well as relatives of the graduates.
With the new doctors, the historical number of foreign graduates in Guantanamo amounts to 778 doctors from more than 40 nationalities, who extend what they have learned with sensitivity and good treatment in defense of the Cuban health model.
Translated and edited by Dayla Perez Ortiz.
