Managua, March 3 (Prensa Latina) Nicaraguan doctors who graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) delivered a donation of medicines to the Cuban Embassy here for the island, the diplomatic headquarters highlighted today on its digital profiles.
During the award ceremony, which was attended by Ambassador Iliana Fonseca, the graduates expressed their respect, admiration, and gratitude to the heroic Cuban people and their Revolution for the unconditional support given to Nicaragua in the training of more than 1,700 doctors, forged with science, profound humanism, and conscience.
The doctors recalled that on February 27, 1999, the first Nicaraguan students arrived at ELAM, an event that marked the beginning of a path of hope, solidarity, and social commitment that transformed their lives and those of their people.
“That visionary decision gave rise to a colossal work that today has trained more than 30,000 doctors for the world, at the service of the most humble,” they emphasized.
They emphasized that this great work was conceived by the eternal commander Fidel Castro, whose solidarity-based and profoundly humanist thinking transcended borders, ideologies and generations, leaving as a legacy a medicine at the service of life, dignity and social justice.
“Cuba, we, your grateful children born in Nicaragua, ELAM Project, say thank you so much for so much love for our homeland! Remember that in each of us lives and will live forever the solidarity, humanism and internationalism that we learned from your example,” they expressed.
They also thanked the host families, the family doctors who participated in their training, and the teaching and working staff of the student residence, who —they pointed out— taught them a medicine of science and conscience.
“We give you this gift filled with the spirit of solidarity of children towards their second homeland, aware that it is a small token compared to all that you have given to us, to our families and to our Nicaraguan people,” they stated.
From the ranks of the so-called White Coat Battalion, at the service of the Good Government and the Sandinista Revolution, under the leadership of co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, they assured that they put into practice the knowledge acquired for the benefit of the people, just as their Cuban teachers taught them.
The doctors also alluded to the difficulties Cuba faces due to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States, and reaffirmed their confidence that it will be defeated by truth, solidarity, and resistance.
“Solidarity, full of respect, hope and gratitude towards Cuba, is becoming every day the greatest force capable of destroying this unjust blockade,” they said.
In that context, they recalled what was proclaimed at the Second International Assembly of the Society of Doctors Graduated from ELAM and at the First International Congress of ELAM: “Cuba is not alone! Cuba resists!”
They also celebrated the 27th anniversary of the arrival of Nicaraguan students at ELAM and the beginning of that work of humanism and solidarity with global impact, while commemorating the centenary of Fidel Castro’s birth and reaffirming the brotherhood between Cuba and Nicaragua.
“Long live ELAM!” they concluded.
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