The Surgical Hospital Amalia Simoni Argilagos resides on Finlay Avenue Km 4 from Camagüey province a special gift of the Cuban Revolution to the insigne woman who together to Ignacio Agramonte in her years of struggle in the redemptive jungle, served many times as a nurse in the hospitals where the rebel and other sanitarians, received and healed to the wounded of the bloody struggle for independence.
Amalia was primogenital of the doctor Jose Ramon Simoni Ricardo from Camagüey, who distinguished himself by being always ready to come to the aid of those in need, demonstrated Amalia in extremely difficult conditions of the Libertarian field the great education inherited from her parents and her great powers to charity and humanism.
She had visited before together to her father the Leper Hospital of Padre Valencia sometimes, in the condition of Honorary President of that institution until her death on January 23rd, 1918, Amalia gave to the Cuban independence cause.
41year ago occurred the physical of the patriot to some extent also transcends the term "... First you will cut my hands to ask my husband that be a traitor" and shocked to Jose Marti to write "Easy are men such women "in her native town is opened the Amalia Simoni hospital to care for people infected with tuberculosis, and first opened by the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz after the Triumph of the Revolution.
Today, on behalves of the 96th anniversary of her death in Havana city of the insigne patriot, we tour the institution history that bears her name and welcomes, among others, for several years ago to the Guaimaro citizens urged of the care services provides that important care unit of our province.
The last of its founders is Victor Romero Soñora doctor, one of the best pulmonologist from Camaguey, retired on November 27th, 1999, day he turned seventy three years old and forty years of successful work life.
Dr. Jorge Castellanos Vasconcelos was the first director during eleven years and also died, participated with other teachers in the training of new generations of cardiologists from Camaguey.
Dr. Castellanos Vasconcelos was also member of the medical team engaging of the United Nations after the Second World War, performed rehabilitation works on the population and war injuries in Europe. Together to them two has prestigious that hospital from Camaguey from 55 years ago, a whole glorious galaxy of professionals and technicians.
Amalia Simoni is distinguished only not by having the conditions to save lives of hundreds and thousands of patients but also for being the only one in Cuba, counts on the Service of Pulmonologist and Tisiologia presently, a provincial service Convicts, the provincial Service Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, a provincial Department of Legal Medicine and adjacent hospital of physically and mentally disabled that service is provided.
The hospital began to work as a clinical surgical on July 1975 and was reopened with that category in the presence of the then First Secretary of the Party in the territory Raul Curbelo Morales, the Minister of Health Public System Dr. Gutierrez Muñiz and Provincial Health Director Dr. Pedro Llerena .
Amalia Simoni hospital receives today capital repair today celebration on behalves of the 500th Anniversary of the foundation of the Puerto del Principe village, today Camagüey province, executed with the participation of inmates the whole province, men and women who only not rehabilitate your health in the rooms of that institution but also pay their debt to society recovering time and continuous use, to the Provincial Surgical Hospital Amalia Simoni: flame of professionals from Las Tunas, Ciego de Avila, Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba provinces, Camagüey besides, who guarantee free care to patients at a cost in developed countries range between 800 and a thousand dollars, combined treatment and hospital stay.
The Revolution not forgets their heroes and heroines, the Revolution really knows how to put up the name of the country and the men and women who helped built it beyond the hardships and sacrifices to get it, eternal glory for Amalia Simoni Argilagos.