Las Tunas.-Permeated by countless sacrifices, the condition of parenthood has particularities that make it unique. Men who form, experience and grow in the work of being a guide and support.
There are men who are born to rediscover efforts, cares and dreams beyond their own family. Doctor Rolando Lucas Limonta carries with him the good fortune of having his own descendants and another adopted one who rejoices in inheriting the wisdom of a man who has become the Father of Surgery in Las Tunas.
«We were poor. My father only worked for three months because he was a worker where they did the harvest and on top of that he was a cobbler and with that money you couldn’t get anything else,” says Lucas Limonta, a man whom the doctors from the Surgery service at the Doctor Ernesto Hospital Guevara de la Serna is revered as a father, and whose grandeur of his work has its own seal.
«I always leaned towards surgery because I liked it a lot, I went to the hospitals in Santiago de Cuba, I talked to the surgeons and I was lucky enough to meet one who dressed me for the first time and told me come, do what I do so that you can enter the operating room with me,” he comments while remaining seated in a room, in which he honors a scientific day that in retrospect of ten minutes, the maximum time of the exhibition, experiences the professional growth of his pupils.
«For me it was a very big award and since then I always wanted to study medicine. There was no money but we got it together, we fought a lot and I was lucky to be able to go to study Medicine, everything was expensive, medical school was not free.
«When I arrived in Havana, with a little money that my parents gave me, I went to the guest house and told the owner that I was only going to have lunch because I felt bad in the afternoons, but the reality was that there was no money. to pay for food for the entire day. That’s where I started, I worked in relief houses in Havana, always involved in hospitals.
«Surgery was the most difficult but I joined several teachers who loved me during that difficult time, they taught me many good things and made me a surgeon. “I wanted to do Cardiovascular Surgery and they denied it, so I dedicated myself as a student to general surgery and here I am as a general surgeon of this country,” he details while his memories come together and little by little he gives us a summary of his life.
“This is how I tried to train others just as they trained me, so that they could do the same thing that I did and in this institution I trained several professionals who esteem me very much,” he confesses while joy appears and he observes at times his hands, which do not show the numerous interventions that have saved the lives of not only locals but also internationals, in their collaborations in other nations.
«I did several missions, I was in Venezuela and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and upon arriving in that last country a patient arrived with a wound in the chest, almost dead. When I entered I saw the situation, they called me and I operated on him, while other doctors stated that as a Cuban I was not going to solve that problem.
«I was very young but with a little knowledge, so I performed the surgery and there was applause of praise from his family, I was like a God because he stayed alive. And that is the greatest reward of a surgeon, that professional who always looks at the patient as his own family member, always striving to bring him back to life,” he details.
«I have three children who are doctors, I trained them and I am very happy and satisfied with the experience, I feel very good about supporting and helping them realize their dreams. I also have a wife who, without her, would not have been able to support me in this situation. For me, Marlen is the greatest thing I have ever had and I would like with all the strength of my soul to have the last breath I have left for her.
This immense man has no time to thank those he knows, he is humble in large quotes to expand his magnitude, he is a guide and family lighthouse again today while accompanying his wife, whom he observes majestically in her dissertation but attentive to a guest special that is confused among the speakers because that is how he likes to be, alongside those he guided in the Guevara operating rooms, scalpel in hand, in a fine line through life.
Grateful for his teachings, Dr. Rolando Lucas Limonta receives immense displays of affection and respect from his disciples who, upon seeing him, magnify him as that father figure of dedication, immense feats and with great words as the Father of Surgery in Las Tunas.
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