Mayabeque, Cuba_ A representation of the national journalism awards José Martí, for the work of life, and Juan Gualberto Gómez, to the work of the year visited the province of Mayabeque as part of the activities for the Cuban Press Day.  

In the city of Güines, they visited the Aleida Fernández Chardiet Clinical and Surgical Hospital, an installation that receives capital reparation. The constructive works are living the last days to soon beginning the installation of the technological equipment. With the re inauguration of this health unit the number of specialized services will increase.

Another work of social impact that they could appreciate was the area of ​​pediatrics attached to the Maternal and Child Hospital, Commander Piti Fajardo. Some rooms equipped with advanced technologies and adequate comforts are already functioning in this installation.

In San José de las Lajas, the capital of Mayabeque, the journalists and guests had the chance to see an audiovisual material that summarizes the province's main social and economic advances during 2017, and the march of the application of the governmental experiment which delimits the functions of the People's Power Assembly and the Administration Council.

At the end the meeting, the presents pay tribute to Antonio Moltó Martorell, who occupied the presidency of the Union of Journalists of Cuba (Upec) until his death on August, 2017. For the first time, since 2013, the Day for the Cuban Press Day is developed without his physical presence, but his teachings and example remain with Cuban journalists.

In the previous day, on the occasion of March 14, date that marks the main celebration of the press in the country, the National Agrarian University of Havana (UNAH) homaged the press workers in Mayabeque. Executives, journalists and students exchanged about how to strengthen the links between the high center of studies and the Upec.

As a result of the exchange, it was agreed to hold a next UNAH-Upec-ICRT meeting to implement lines of work that include the subject Fundamentals of Journalism in the program of the career Socio-Cultural Management.

This argument responds to the fact that in recent years the newsrooms of the different media in the province filled vacancies with graduate students of Social Communication and Sociocultural Studies from the UNAH. This lack, although to a lesser extent, is still present.

At another time, the categorization of journalists who will assume the responsibility of teaching at the University and promoting the completion of diploma work in the media was suggested.

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