Yesterday, the death of Dr. Felipe Aragón Rojas, at 80 years of age, represents the sensitive loss of one of the most notable sons of Ciego de Ávila and of Cuban medicine.

He, graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in Havana in 1970, completed a magnificent professional endorsement by reaching the titles of Second Degree Specialist in Theory and Administration of Public Health and Second Degree Specialist in Hygiene and Epidemiology.

He accumulated extensive experience in management tasks at different levels and served for 20 years as Provincial Director of Health in Ciego de Ávila.

In addition, he successfully completed 27 internationalist missions, in which he praised the island's Health services and the altruistic sense of Cuban medicine.

Doctor Felipe Aragón Rojas held with special pride the Plaque and the Medal of Illustrious Son of Ciego de Ávila, a city he loved intensely and whose streets he walked on daily walks, which allowed him to exchange with his fellow citizens on dissimilar topics, since he had a remarkable cultural heritage.

The Provincial Directorate of Public Health of Ciego de Ávila, when reporting and regretting the death of Dr. Felipe Aragón Rojas, described him as a Paradigm of Medicine.