To say that Cuban medicine takes the name of Finlay is not a superficial affirmation, or a phrase that is forced into notebooks: Cuban medicine includes many others, but Finlay has a significant trademark including Latin America.
His most renowned contribution is the discovery of the transmitting agent of the yellow fever virus: the AedesAegypti mosquito, however, he also carried out research on cholera and its dissemination through contaminated water.
There is not one of his precepts on the island that is not currently valid, or a Doctor that has inherited the daily work of that genius born in Camaguey on December 3rd, 1833.
His name is Carlos J. Finlay and if Latin America is commemorating Medicine Day, they are also paying homage to the eminent scientist and researcher.
The medical personnel in Villa Clara province has a unique respect and admiration for him, not because they are part of apprehended knowledge on his 182nd birthday but because there is a living matter to a science that is transformed by the day.
Dr. Maria de Lourdes Sanchez is the head of the laboratory of the Provincial Hygiene and Epidemiology Center in the birthplace of the illustrious scientist and summarizes the contributions to the territory.
Villa Clara has created 15 Specialist Centers for the Integral Active Investigation (CEPAI), for the diagnosis of transmittable and non-transmittable diseases and this does not constitute a merit not only for the region but is a proud result for all those that work in favor of the development of medical science.
These entities allow the early detection of colon or prostate cancer or kidney ailments which is another reason to honor those that saves lives on a daily basis.
Patients do not have to access the technology in faraway places but in their own municipality and that is a positive outcome in the island´s health care system.
Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba will soon incorporate the process of diagnosis technique of HIV/AIDS only carried out in Havana.
According to Maria de Lourdes they are also carrying out the process in the search for the Virus of Human Papilloma, group of organisms that infect the skin and membranes and other diseases, sometimes cancerous.
That is why and for other anonymous achievements, Dr. Neil Reyes Miranda, head of the Transmittable Diseases Department, said Cuba has not only limited the stage of curing the patient, but to do research in the field of health which was part of the teachings of Dr. Finlay.
For Dr. Reyes, Finlay is not only a name that remains in the past or only books, the contrary: the doctor has a universe of truths that up until today are irrefutable.
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