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Almost three hours lasted the parade of the people of Camagüey in which some 150,000 workers from the 15 unions paraded through the Plaza de la Revolución Mayor General Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz.

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ABPM, arterial hypertension and personalized medication

The measurement of blood pressure emerged in 1896 in a non-invasive way from the hands of the Italian doctor Scipione Riva-Rocci, who introduced the sphygmomanometer, an event that allowed the measurement of systolic blood pressure —known as the maximum— and almost a decade later , the Russian vascular surgeon Nicolai Korotkoff developed the auscultator technique, through which it was possible to measure the systolic and diastolic blood pressure —the minimum.

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As a child she dreamed of being a teacher or a nurse, but literature sparked her interest in journalism. There, in her native Senado she discovered the Soviet classics, Jules Verne and Emilio Salgari. Bárbara Suárez Ávalos has been a journalist for more than 40 years, and she still feels for her profession that passion of the first day. She has just received the Rolando Ramírez Provincial Award for the Work of Life.

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The Necessary War and its uprising order

January 1895 dealt a devastating blow to José Martí: Spanish spies in collusion with the American police had seized an arms shipment and several ships in the Port of Fernandina, in Florida, destined to start the Necessary.

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Without objective recollection of the reason that made her study Medicine Dr. Sonia María González Vega, specialist 1st. and 2nd. Degree in Comprehensive General Medicine (MGI), Master in Longevity Satisfactory and Assistant Professor, she is very clear that since her graduation in 1991, that she wanted to perform in Primary Health Care (APS) was her biggest motivation.

The body of Fidel Castro would not live forever, by natural law, but it was unbelievable that relationship of his name with the death, because from a young age he was inhabiting spaces of the popular imagination where the timelines are imprecise, where he just dies of oblivion or for lack of memory.

The professional life of Dr. María del Carmen Romero Sánchez, specialist of 1st. and 2nd. Degree in Comprehensive General Medicine (MGI), Master in Satisfactory Longevity and Medical Education, and Assistant and Consultant Professor, has been full of challenges since its inception. When she graduated from medical school in 1984 she was one of the seven ones selected for the start of the Family Physician Program in Camagüey.

The Revolution Square Museum is a sacred place in Camagüey, not just for bearing the name and dignity of Ignacio Agramonte, also because it was one of the resting place for Fidel's ashes on his way to the eternal.

The sound of the cardiorespiratory monitor will remain in her mind like the echo of terrible days. Perhaps, more than once she wakes up remembering the feeling of suffocation. She will touch the belly like when she was on that hospital bed. A glance at the crib will be enough to calm everything down.

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