Doctor Nurys Diéguez Andrés (1951-2016), mainstay of the Intensive Care Medicine in Las Tunas

Abstract

Doctor Nurys Nirma Diéguez Andrés is one of the outstanding personalities in the barely four decades of universal and free medicine in the Cuban province of Las Tunas. She started her graduate studies on Internal Medicine at Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna Hospital, her long-life workplace, in 1981. There she was the founder of the local intensive care services as well as the program of donor organ extraction for transplantation to those patients in need. Her teaching activities began as Instructor in 1985, ascending to Assistant in 1992 and to Auxiliary Professor in 2001. She was designated Consultant Professor on December 7th, 2007. All the generations of intensive care physicians and nurses were molded by her educational activity. She passed away last March 23rd, 2016, in the hospital to which she devoted her whole professional career.

Keywords

• history of medicine
• internal medicine
• emergency medicine