[NYTr] Cuba's Major Medical Institute Celebrates 45th Anniversary
 
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:18:23 -0500 (CDT)

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Cuba's Major Medical Institute Celebrates 45th Anniversary

Havana, Oct 18 (acn) The extraordinary contribution of Cuban Fidel 
Castro in the training of health professionals was highlighted on 
Wednesday during a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of Havana's 
Victoria de Giron Institute of Basic and Preclinical Sciences.

Addressing participants at the ceremony, Dr. Jose Miyar Barrueco said 
Fidel founded the institute --at the height of 1962 October Missile 
Crisis-- to address a shortage of healthcare professionals, arising 
from the exodus of Cuban doctors to the United States. He was also 
seeking to support the implementation of the newly installed concept of 
rural social services and free healthcare for all.

During the ceremony, Dr. Miyar Barrueco, Cuban Communist Party 
Political Bureau member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, and Public Health 
Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer were conferred with the Honoris Causa 
Doctorates.

Dr. Miyar Barrueco thanked the Institute, on behalf of himself and his 
colleagues, for the honor received by those who have been side-by-side 
with Fidel Castro in the implementation of national plans and programs 
to train doctors, dentists, nurses and healthcare technicians.

Dr. Miyar Barrueco said that, 45 years after its founding, the Victoria 
de Giron institute remains a stalwart of Cuban public healthcare and 
medical teaching.

He noted that it was in this institution where Fidel Castro stated, for 
the first time, the importance of graduates offering their services 
wherever the Revolution needed them.

He added that Cuba continues to be the country with the largest per 
capita ratio of doctors, with some 71,389 practicing physicians.

Another highlight of the ceremony was the granting of the Professor 
Emeritus title to Doctors Jose Roberto Aquino Cias, Nibaldo Basilio 
Hernandez Mesa, Antonio Gonzalez Griego, Eduardo Lino Basco Fuentes and 
Juan Vela Valdes.
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