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For our medicine students, the COVID-19 pandemic imposed an unprecedented challenge. For a year they have carried out investigations en masse to every corner of the Cuban geography, looking for the symptoms of a virus that takes lives every day in the world; however, given the rebound in the pandemic in Camagüey territory, they have assumed other tasks in the Red Zone.

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Damarys learned to "tame" fire

The sighting of a column of smoke represented for the Redskins of North America an opportune signal in the communication of a victory or a defeat in combat. For a Ranger Corps like the one in Camagüey, a cluster of gray clouds, above a green area, means that victory will only be possible when they have completely reduced the fire.

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Gegem: Beyond Adventure

Mexico Cave is the largest cave system known so far in the province of Camagüey. Contrary to what one might think, it is not found in any of our mountainous regions, but in the northern coastal plain.

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Very few imagine that the blue scarf that children wear around their necks on October 8, as a symbol that they are starting out as pioneers, will mark them so much; that they will begin their journey through an organization with rebellious roots and Martí's essences, and that as happened to many of us, when our time to belong to it is running out, we want to continue being proud pioneers.

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Facing the COVID-19, biosecurity decides

It is no coincidence that I need the assistance of Dr. Leosvel Pérez, a doctor from the Vertientes municipality, in this province, and a member of the Henry Reeve International Contingent, made up of Cuban Health personnel Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics. The issue of biosafety (it deals with the prevention and control of biological risk in people who are exposed, directly or indirectly) is one of the most mentioned in times of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, because it is an act that decides.

Chang, short of stature, giant of talent

Alfonso Chang Rodríguez from Camagüey won the 2020 Technological Innovation Award, awarded by presidential decree at the proposal of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, for his mining research on the San Felipe plateau.

Strength of woman

Fatigued faces behind thick face masks, family concerns eclipsed by duty and hopes to overcome the pandemic, are emotions of the group of women from the Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja military hospital, who every day fight against COVID-19.

Since 1978, 580 transplants have been performed in the territory's nephrology service. “We have transplants who have been like this for more than 20 years, but if you ask me, the graft has a survival period of 15 years because when it is lost they go back to dialysis. Right now in this treatment we have 180 patients, here the machines do not stop, never, there are no waiting lists or quotas, they work as long as there is a person who needs it ”.

Driving a North Benz truck loaded with 60 tons of sugar cane and two trailers is no easy task for anyone. The simplest maneuver demands precision, especially since that mass of iron does not stop so easily; however, the most experienced say that she does it very well.

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