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My Goal Is Always To Help Other
People
March 1,
2010, 3:59 pm
Esther De la Cruz Castillejo
estherc@enet.cu
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino
Las Tunas.- I met him at the Hospital
Dr. Ernesto Guevara, of this city, and since the
first moment I realized he was in born to help other
people. I also discovered that life can always be
more surprising than what you can perceive a single
glance.
He told me about himself, included that he was
studying medicine in the second year of that |
Ulises de Jesus Perez enjoys
helping other people. |
career and that his wife was going to have a
baby in a month.
He doesn't differ too much of the so many inhabitants of this
city. Only that his voice trembled at the memory of a traffic
accident where his pregnant wife lost her life. As I didn't have
choice I kept silence to let him to talk about how much
motivated he is with his career to be more useful.
At the beginning it was a big nervous exacerbation, then a slow
mental recovery that made him realize that it had happened five
years ago and that he was losing his medical career, but he will
have new challenges.
"I wanted to return - he asserts with a sob I discover behind
his sunglasses- but it was too late because I was 25 years old,
so I gave myself to the task of making an effort to be near of
my goal. If it could not be a doctor at least I need to be
inside the field of the health to be useful."
For that reason he recalls with pleasure his studies as Sign
Language interpreter, his time as worker in the National
Association of Deaf of Cuba (ANSOC) and in the School for Art
Instructors of this provincial capital city, until a Course of
Medical Emergency, with verticalization to the Medicine, gave
him a new opportunity.
While he was telling me about how he was able to achieve it and
about the support he received from many good friends, the
identification on his shirt as nursing student, in the fourth
year, allowed me to know his name: Ulises de Jesus Perez
Betancourt.
He is no longer a stranger and now I find more natural his quick
steps, his walks under the sun to arrive at an institution of
health where somebody can need his services and his troubles
because during his service he wants everything works like a
watch to save a human life.
His road has had many thorns, but he breathes satisfied because
he is optimistic. He thinks he is more prepared than others to
give a hand. He trusts in a System of Public Health that didn't
leave him alone when he was mentally weak.
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