Nursing is an important part of her life for Nivia Gómez Martín: “Imagine, at home they wanted me to enroll in another degree, but I insisted and got there; How could it not be like that if I have the family inheritance of four aunts, three of them still active, one now deceased, who I remember with great affection.

“This profession is fascinating, you have to love it; One hours and hours go by in a hospital or office looking after the health of the sick and you want them to heal so that they return to active life, however, it is sad when the patient does not fully recover or dies. We are always at the side of the doctors and each indication given to the patient must be strictly complied with ”, she expresses excitedly, who already has thirty-three years of experience.

Today is International Nursing Day, an annual commemoration promoted by the International Council of Nursing, which is celebrated around the world on May 12, the day of the birth of the Italian Florence Nightingale, a distinguished woman considered the founder of modern nursing. Thanks to her, statistical methods of health services and epidemiology were established. On the other hand, her model of care for the patient was aimed at preserving vital energy using nature itself to achieve healing.

And from that line of consecration is also Tahiri Chávez Borrego: “I am very grateful to the Revolution that gave me the opportunity to become a nurse, obtain a bachelor's degree and later study a master's degree, all that for me is a true privilege because I am the mother of a teenager and a young man who are preparing in their respective schools and my husband is an architect, together we form a revolutionary family.

“So what better way than to provide my people with quality services, that's the answer. Right now we are immunizing my colleagues from my health sector with the vaccine candidate Abdala; But, the same thing we carry out this task that we march together with the doctors to attend to the patients of Covid 19, to the red line taking precautions to avoid contagion, that is how we nurses are giving, offering the best to save lives ”.