Sergio del Valle Jimenez  

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Lenzer, Jeanne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 336 no. 7636 (Jan. 2008), page 162.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2008.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Minister of health and hero of the Republic of Cuba. Cuban physician Sergio del Valle Jimenez, who joined Fidel Castro’s revolutionary forces as a doctor and soldier, said that guerrilla doctors must be doubly human to save not only the lives of the wounded but also the causes for which they fight. Del Valle served in various capacities during events in Cuba that would have ripple effects around the world. After the overthrow of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista on 1 January 1959, he rose to position of commander. He was a trusted adviser to Castro during the unsuccessful US invasion at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs) in 1961. He became the army chief of staff during the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962. He also helped carry out land reform asan agriculture director before he became the head of the nation’s internal security apparatus—a position he left to become the minister of health. As the minister of health from March . . .

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