The Carlos J. Finlay University of Medical Sciences of Camagüey (UCMC) resumed its teaching activities this week with the fundamental premise of maintaining quality in the training of professionals in the health sector.

History confirms that “great tasks can be placed on the shoulders of the youth”. This Fidel’s maxim continues to be upheld by young people like Laura Marian Bacallao Padrón, a candidate for deputy in the Cuban parliament. At only 22 years old, the enthusiastic journalism student speaks of her commitment to her new challenges.

For our medicine students, the COVID-19 pandemic imposed an unprecedented challenge. For a year they have carried out investigations en masse to every corner of the Cuban geography, looking for the symptoms of a virus that takes lives every day in the world; however, given the rebound in the pandemic in Camagüey territory, they have assumed other tasks in the Red Zone.