Author: Yaisa Fragelas
"To be a Cuban doctor, is to be a fidelista and to make the thought of the leader of the Revolution more evident every day" said Doctor Wilson Montoro..
Graduated in 1989, he took his first steps in a Family Medical Office in the rural area of Cárdenas.
Later, he held responsibilities in the Vice-Directorate of Health and thanks the most experienced for the support and teachings they gave him when he was an inexperienced young man.
He moved to the Julio Aristegui Villamil Territorial Teaching Hospital years later and for a time assumed its direction, until he traveled to Colombia for more than two years on the guerrilla front.
“Sharing what we have and not what is left over is a basic principle learned with Fidel”…the man who provided solidarity aid to many countries around the world, mainly with health personnel.
Wilson, has been the protagonist inside and outside Cuba of multiple programs. When the ALBA agreements arrived, he traveled to Simón Bolívar's land on two occasions.
He is a simple man, but he has a wealth of experience that he has been able to share in his country, in China and Angola.
Today he is responsible for the Program for the Elderly in Cárdenas and he confessed to me the pride he feels in belonging to the army of white coats, convinced that if he were to be born again Medicine would be the same career he would dedicate his whole life to.
This is the story of men and women who in Cuba and other lands have left their mark.
And it is the reason why many children in the world bear the name of Carlos, Yamilé, Vivian or Fidel, to forever remember the Cuban doctor or the man who felt the most devotion to them.
The excerpt from Fidel Castro's Doctors and Not Bombs speech attests to this.
«... Tens of thousands of Cuban doctors have provided internationalist services in the most remote and inhospitable places. One day I said that we could not and would never carry out surprise and preventive attacks against any dark corner of the world: but that, on the other hand, our country was capable of sending the doctors that were needed to the darkest corners of the world. Doctors and not bombs. Doctors and not smart weapons.
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