The graduation ceremony of 23 Nurses that took place in the Main Hall of the Guantanamo University of Medical Sciences was dedicated to the 95th and 178th birth anniversaries of Commander Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Che) and General Antonio Maceo Grajales, respectively
Master of Sciences Yanet del Carmen Pérez Ferreiro, rector of the Higher Studies institution, said that graduates have a comprehensive training with high values of responsibility, commitment and humanism, demonstrated during the covid-19 pandemic, especially in the direct link with suspected and confirmed patients.
She also highlighted the incorporation of 13 Nursing students to the vertical internship program in the specialties of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Neonatology, Pediatrics, Community Care, as well as Intensive Care and Emergency units.
Leda María Sánchez Rodríguez and Yelennis Ponce Planche were the most outstanding students and were congratulated by Dr. Nael Preval Campello, Health Provincial Director.
The best graduate was Lilianne Magdariaga Centeno, with the most outstanding results, including the teaching sphere. She also volunteered in the red valet of the isolation centers of the municipality of Caimanera and in
the Abdala’s clinical trial, the first anti-covid-19 vaccine in Latin America.
Speaking on behalf of all graduates, the new professional thanked Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, historical leader of the Revolution, and Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of Cuba, for the creation and sustainability of programs in favor of the development and preparation of young people in the country.
Yolanda Correoso Espinosa, general secretary of the Institution, said that from 1985 to date, 5,383 nurses have graduated from the higher education center, of which 3,207.
Of that total, 11 were foreign students from the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, who were benefited from scholarships to university studies in Cuba, a gesture that demonstrates the solidarity commitment of the Cuban Revolution for the training of professionals from sister nations.
