On the 55th anniversary of the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Hospital in Camaguey City, some 200 specialists, physicians, students and researchers debated in the scientific meeting crucial issues for this current surgical practice.

A Second Degree Specialist Mauro Castello expressed, “A series of pivotal issues for their social impact have been tackled, such as newborn and infant surgery, minimal access surgery, tumors, and trauma. In all, a wide spectrum of noteworthy topics have been dealt, which will result in important outcomes that may improve patients’ life quality and our own work.”

Castello’s international experience of collaboration in countries such as Belize and Haiti makes him to care for children even more. He has had plenty of anecdotes to tell about in his nearly 20 years of work, both in Cuba and abroad since 2005.

“Whenever you assist a sick child, that moment changes your life, for the kid’s family and expectations. There have been many experiences, we are a working family that shares risks, it is part of the doctor’s job because we deal with the lives of children. But therein lies the art of pediatric surgery,” he said to Prensa Latina.

Meetings such as this Scientific Conference, in which over a hundred papers have been presented by residents in Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery, Child Psychiatry and other specialties, are more than useful, particularly in Cuba that has been seriously affected by economic issues regarding access to medicines and equipment.

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