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AGUIAR GONZALEZ DE LA PENA, Nelson  y  BENITEZ PINON, Lourdes. CHE, PARADIGMA DEL MÉDICO REVOLUCIONARIO: Che, a paradigm of a revolutionary doctor  Vigencia del pensamiento médico-social del Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2008, vol.7, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1729-519X.

Ernesto Guevara-internationally known as Che- has been immortalized in history pages as the collaborator warrior, capable of fighting for freedom and independence of the Third World population. In Cuba, is created a directive medical organization called MINSAP. Since then, there is an active popular participation in prevention and health education in general: Vaccination Campaigns and Hygienic and Sanitary. The rural medical service is created in 1960 and the Policlinics were institutionalized (1964). Firstly, to develop curative actions which granted a free health access and also geographically accessible; in 1974 it is created the Comunitary Policlinic which has given an integral attention to population. In a speech, Che referred to other ideas such as: “accustom all health professionals towards the responsibilities of social medicine” The family doctor’s and nurse’s program of work has an objective to improve the health status of the population by integral actions directed to the individual, the family , the community and the environment, in close correlation with masses of population having in consideration the doctor-nurse-patient relationship, the humanism sensitivity and love to the rest. Undoubtedly, Che’s ideas about social medicine, acquire an extraordinary dimension due to their update in the formation of new generations of health professionals and in the conception of Public Health in our country.