By: Dr. Miguel Martínez Cabrera
This historical past article was written in recognition and because of useful individuals – most of them from Huila – who with altruism, magnanimity and self-discipline made it attainable to create a medical college in Huila at a time when the youth wanted the share this journey to Bogotá, Popayán or Manizales to make the dream of changing into a physician come true.
When the aircraft with President Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala on board landed on the “Benito Salas” airport in Neiva, the governor of Huila and Dr. Reynaldo Polania had been ready for him. Dr. Reynaldo recalled that for a while he had been sharing his initiative to create a medical college in Neiva as an integral a part of the Surcolombiana College with a gaggle of buddies and he determined someday to go to the governor who acquired the complimented kindly and willingly and requested. :
- Who owns the cash?
- With oil royalties
- We now have to speak to the president who will arrive in Neiva in a couple of days
- Can I speak to him in particular person?
- No, the agenda is full
- Who will meet you on the airport?
- Sure
- Mr. Governor, depart me a seat within the automotive and on the way in which from the airport to the governor’s workplace, you spoke to him.
President Turbay Ayala, married to Nydia Quintero Turbay, from Huila, welcomed the initiative and later requested for recommendation from the Nationwide College, to which rector Eduardo Meneses Velasquez responded rapidly by appointing a gaggle of technicians to conduct headquarters inspections. Nationwide College in Neiva begins with a medical college.
After many procedures and difficulties, the medical college was based on July 25, 1983 as an integral a part of the USCO, with the presence of the vice minister of schooling Luis Camilo Osorio. The primary semester started with 41 college students, with Roque Gonzales Garzón as rector of USCO and Dr. Odilio Mendez Sandoval as the primary dean of the college. In 1989, the primary class of medical doctors graduated, with Edgar Machado as rector.
As we speak a whole bunch of medical doctors graduated from USCO’s work efficiently in Colombia, North America and Europe.
Dr. Reynaldo mentioned {that a} group of medical doctors from Huila had been very a lot towards the institution of the Neiva medical college, however 10 years later, when a cocktail celebration was held to have a good time it, they had been the primary to reach on the web site of celebration and to him…..No They invited him!!!!; He advised me this with a broad smile and with none disgrace as a result of Dr. Reynaldo didn’t search any public recognition.
Necessary individuals within the founding of the USCO medical college:
Dr AS Reynaldo is from Poland: distinguished lawyer, Justice of the Peace, dean of the college of regulation on the Universidad Cooperativa, headquarters of Neiva; He based the José María Rojas Garrido evening highschool. Thought-about the best humanitarian Huila has ever had, he devoted a superb a part of his life to depart a superb schooling for the individuals of Huila as a legacy; a passionate reader, he had a excessive cultural degree. He was born in Palermo, Huila.
Roque Gonzales Garzón: Graduate in arithmetic, rector of the USCO, tireless fighter and elementary within the creation of the medical college, making an attempt to make it probably the greatest within the nation. He was born in Palermo Huila.
Jaime Salazar Diaz: Governor Huila, an architect, was a courageous pioneer within the creation of the USCO medical college; He proposed that this school be created to the Huila meeting. He visited the rector of the Nationwide College two or thrice searching for the Huila medical college. He was born in Garzón, Huila.
Edgar Machado: Rector of the USCO, graduate in languages, specialist in worldwide relations, graduated the primary class of basic medical doctors in 1989. I work with dedication and powerful will for a excessive educational degree of this school. He was born in Alvarado Tolima.
Odilio Mendez Sandoval: Pathologist from Bogotá, he was the primary dean of the college, a disciplined, diligent and diligent physician, who is extremely revered by the Huila medical union and the Huila society.
William Squares Alcid: Huilense politician, lawyer, senator of the Republic, minister of justice, ambassador, president of the Senate, president of the liberal celebration. He was the speaker of the regulation for the creation of the Surcolombiana College. He enthusiastically led the creation of the USCO medical college within the state. He was born in Baraya, Huila.
Particular because of:
Jairo Ramírez Bayamón, Huilense historian for his contribution, battle, kindness, will and collaboration to make this medical historical past article attainable.
Dr. Reynaldo Trujillo: specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics, member of the primary class of medical doctors who graduated in 1989.
NOTE: The governor who acquired President Turbay Ayala on the airport could have been Álvaro Sanchez Silva or Jorge Eugenio Ferro Triana.
