Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
By Gladys Dailyn Morera Cordero/Radio Cadena Agramonte.
The relatives of his patients recognize Alejandro Álvarez López as the doctor - a word that implies gratitude and love -, while his colleagues call him professor, and both terms contain respect and esteem for someone who has dedicated 25 years of his life to the health of children at the Eduardo Agramonte Piña provincial pediatric hospital, in Camagüey.
The clean look and deep sensitivity are impressive, as this is someone with an immense spirit who daily gives hope under the principle that, wherever he is, the medical gown and the vocation to relieve pain are inherent elements. .
For him there is no greater reward than the rehabilitation of an infant or when, step by step, his patients recover and come to the office to show the fruit of their effort and dedication.
“Seeing children who, due to diseases of the muscular system, arrive with difficulty walking, and then evolve favorably, is the best thing that can happen to me. There are no possible ways to describe that feeling.”
Stories like those of Doctor of Medical Sciences Alejandro Álvarez López deserve to be told, not only because he dedicated himself body and soul to the profession of orthopedics, but because he did so out of a vocation to a specialty full of tensions, but also indescribable emotions like him.
“I joined the pediatric hospital as a student and at the beginning I did volunteer duty to learn and help. There I understood that each professional has enough shame and dignity to give our patients the security that they are safe in our hands.”
Since then, in one way or another, it has contributed to the training of specialists in Orthopedics and Traumatology, and ensures that it has the support of managers and colleagues to care for the sick in a center that spares no effort for health.
"Fortunately, malignant activities in the specialty of orthopedics do not have a high incidence and complex cases occur every three months, but we always try to give our all and not make the recovery traumatic."
favorable evolution of each of them, although slow, he and his work team feel like better people, he assures with healthy pride.
That is why Dr. Alejandro Álvarez López does not miss the opportunity to remember one of the many anecdotes: “the most recent is about an eight-year-old girl diagnosed with cerebral palsy and the emotion was immense when she arrived walking after an operation to the consultation.”
He mentions the results of arthroscopy, a minimal access operation that is only performed in pediatric ages in Havana and Camagüey, and added that the evolution of a six-year-old girl who underwent the operation and the next day was They were discharged, a true event, since the medical literature shows few such cases, involving young children.
After twenty surgical interventions based on this procedure, Dr. Alejandro affirms that there is a good response to this surgery, “hence we have several research projects on arthroscopy in pediatric ages, with our own techniques and very good results. We feel good because in the midst of so many difficulties, beautiful things are achieved.”
An inevitable smile appears on the face of the consecrated doctor when he evokes the progress of his children and the pride of his colleagues is evident in the wisdom of one of the best Cuban orthopedics, who in his own right enjoys the affection of so many people after dedicating himself to the profession more than half of his recently completed 51 years of life. (Photos: From the author)
