The Karl Marx Theater hosted the ceremony, headed by Rolando Ernesto Yero Travieso, head of the Department of Attention to the Social Sector of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba; José Angel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health, and other high authorities of the sector, as well as representatives of the University Student Federation and the Union of Young Communists.
In her main speech, Yoandra Muro Valle, rector of the UCMLH, reported that among the graduates are 1,160 doctors, 82 stomatologists, 291 graduates in eight careers in Health Technologies, and 166 graduates of other training programs, including courses by meetings and short cycles.
Today we have the privilege of graduating in this scenario one thousand 899 professionals who have demonstrated the ability to respond to the needs of the new times, said Muro Valle, who highlighted the active participation of students in the confrontation with COVID-19, in volunteer work tasks, in community interventions and in the defense of sovereignty.