A group of 66 Paraguayans graduated in medicine in Cuba, who returned this week, thanked the training they received in the island, and expressed the desire to join as quickly as possible to work in their country.
 
The young physicians, as Ultima Hora website posts today, returned in two groups from Havana on Monday and Tuesday, after taking the career in several specialized universities in different provinces.
 
That is the case of Jessica Gomez, who did not only reach the diploma but did so with a gold medal crediting her as the best graduate of her class at the Institute of Medical Sciences of Santiago de Cuba.
 
"It is not easy to leave the family, and adapt to new and strange cultures. The nostalgia, yearning (techaga'u, in Guarani language) is strong," Gomez, 24, told the website.
 
Studying hard, that is the only secret of the young woman to have finished her career with honors, and now start faster her internship (social service) in rural areas, as Paraguay requires, to then insert fully into the profession and perform specialization in neurology.
 
According to the press report, the 33 physicians who arrived in this capital on Monday began their efforts the following day, supported by the continuing education program, Prodepa, to renew their identity cards and the issuing of repatriation certificate.
 
With the latter, the medical graduates in Cuba will access tariff exemptions and get a preferential cost for the process of recognition of the certificate as a general and comprehensive physician at the Rector's office of the National University of Asuncion.