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The writer Niurki Pérez García has spent her life making books. She makes them how she would like to see them published. She has also invented them as teaching materials to educate her daughter.

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For those of us who at some point find healing hands in the corridors inside the Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja Teaching Clinical Surgical Military Hospital, in this city, there is always the memory of that mixture of white and green colors that is not found in others health institutions. Is this a place for the military or for doctors, for soldiers or for the people? Those who come to its headquarters in the Garrido neighborhood for the first time wonder. At first it is enigmatic, but from there you come out with certainty.

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When she, very young, got sick and was treated in Havana as a demonstration in a Medicine class, Nieves Atrio knew: she would be a doctor. She was in the 1950s and her father told her that only “elite” young people studied this. On the contrary, her mother collected penny by penny to fulfill her little girl's dream, money that would not have that purpose with the triumph of the Revolution.

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The change of weather in Madrid was abrupt. From the headlines, the storm flooded Spain. For 100 years, so much water has not fallen in one day. That October night I only thought about the invitation to the Lara Theater to see Joel Angelino, a Cuban from Sagua la Grande, for the instance of memory in which he gravitates with the monologue Strawberry and Chocolate, 30 years later.

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If beds could talk, hospital stories would have more details. The weight of pain and the response of the body in struggle to recover the rhythm that life leads falls on them. The most critical and serious stories are written today in nine of the 13 beds of the intensive care service of the pediatric hospital of Camagüey.

 Esther's story is on the walls of her living room. On one side of the wall her loves, family and friends, on the other the recognitions received in her work within the Church and in her secular work; on another wall are photos of her various meetings with Fidel and Raúl, and right at the entrance, a painting that describes her faith: “a river of living water.”

Yaritza Rodríguez Beltrán was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis 30 years ago. That motivated her to study Medicine and choose the specialty of Traumatology, in which she is studying her 2nd year. She is part of the 212 volunteers participating in the clinical trial of the drug Jusvinza for the treatment of this disease.

The pride that defines a city with more than five centuries of history is a constant in the efforts of the Office of the Historian of the city of Camagüey (OHCC). Its summer programming has combined the recreation typical of the summer season with learning and promoting heritage values.

Although August begins to burn its last "ships", there are still days to enjoy the summer options in the province, and many choose to take advantage of the variables designed in the city, without having to go to the beach or camping .

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