• 26 investigates the professional goals of Leidis Torres Velázquez, who recently graduated as an all-around student from the University of Medical Sciences in Las Tunas.
Leidis' routines were disrupted during the pandemic period. At the mercy of the worst epidemiological situation that the country has faced, the medical student confesses that each day was also about personal growth and verifying what priorities moved her heartbeat there, on the left side of her chest.
She says that the Coronavirus forced us to face an unknown danger and opt for the best possible service to the population with empathy and sensitivity to impact the patient. She remembers the pain of looking death in the face and feeling how friends are left without family, how life changes in the blink of an eye...
With the strength of this teaching, the most transcendental part of her career, according to her, LeidisTorres Velázquez stands today as an all-around graduate of the University of Medical Sciences. She is also grateful to the faculty that guided her through her education and has seen her follow her instinct to seek new horizons and to always look forward.
A native of Guantánamo, and currently an inhabitant of the Colombia municipality, she assures that beyond the laurels is celebrating having obtained the specialty in Cardiology, a service to which she will join very soon, and where she feels at home.
“I studied at the Luis Urquiza Jorge Vocational Pre-university Institute of Exact Sciences (IPVCE) and I was a Mathematics contestant; in fact, that was my first great passion. During my degree, I discovered that electrocardiograms have a lot to do with this subject and I always wanted something that combined medicine with arithmetic. So if a simple calculation can help save a life, with immediacy, I want to be there.”
She was president of the Federation of University Students (FEU) at the University of Medical Sciences and confesses that it contributed greatly to her. “I grew while learning how to transform scenarios, and how to involve and motivate others. Along with your studies, you can do much more; as a matter of fact, you not only grow as a professional but also as a person, you cultivate what you are: passionate about doing, whether it is art or another inspiration.”
In the current scenario that the sector is experiencing, marked by a shortage of medical supplies, Leidis aims to contribute to society, seek strategies, and honor the profession from the Secondary Health Care level, with responsibility, a virtue from which youngsters are not exempt.
Her most beautiful moment in our dialogue is dedicated to her mother, “that force that has made everything possible, without which the last six years, or life itself, would not have been possible.” For her, she raises her head, her successes.
Seeing Leidis rise from the white coat is irrefutable proof that new pines reach their horizons with the fertilizer of yesteryear. The girl urges all young people who entertain the idea of being doctors to follow their dreams because the reward does not fit on a piece of paper; but it marks, it permeates and, in the new order of life, it defines you simply: first, you are a doctor.
