The director of the Malbrán Institute, Pascual Fidelio, highlighted this Thursday that the image of the organization’s façade on the back of the 2,000 pesos bill to be issued by the Central Bank “It is a recognition of the national scientific quality and the importance of Argentine public health, which is already continental”.
The new banknote will commemorate the development of science and medicine in Argentina and will have as protagonists the Malbrán Institute and Cecilia Grierson and Ramón Carrillo, precursors in the development of medicine in our country.
In this sense, Fidelio highlighted the “teachings of Carrillo, Grierson and Dr. Malbrán (Carlos)” that “They transcended borders.”
“This is news that fills us with pride, not only to the Malbrán family, but to the entire Argentine public health system. We are moved,” he told Télam Fidelio.
And he added that it was “a surprise. We found out this afternoon (on Thursday afternoon) and the congratulations for the groups and chats began to arrive. A pride for a century-old institution and for two figures such as the first doctor in Argentina, Cecilia Grierson, and Dr. Ramón Carrillo, whose trajectories, efforts and legacies are undeniable”.
He added that “it is very important for science and for health to be recognized, regardless of whether it is on a ticket or a stamp; Being recognized is a compliment for all the effort that the health system has been making that was put in great evidence during the pandemic” of coronavirus.
Regarding the Malbrán, he stressed that “The National Administration of Laboratories and Health Institutes (ANLIS)” is made up of “fourteen centers in Misiones, Salta, Santa Fe, province and city of Buenos Aires.”
“It is a conglomerate of institutes whose administration is called Carlos Malbrán and is the space for research in science and health of the Ministry of Health of the Nation, despite being a decentralized body,” he said.
The BCRA Board of Directors approved the issuance of a new $2,000 bill that commemorates the development of science and medicine in Argentina and that will feature the Malbrán Institute, Dr. Cecilia Grierson and Dr. Ramón Carrillo.
▶️ https://t.co/6j5Imp5XfR– BCRA (@BancoCentral_AR) February 2, 2023
He pointed out that the Institute works in “countless diseases, many of them forgotten and endemic that affect a large number of the population. If the State were not present, we would have a much greater impact of these diseases on the population”.
He stressed that in the “The budget reflected, before the pandemic, the interest of the Nation for the Malbrán to return to what it had been: Provide health solutions. For example, we make vaccines and antisera that no one in the country or in the region does. This has been work for decades and is key to national and regional health policy. We have jobs with Bolivia, Chile and Brazil”.
Fidelio indicated that he hopes that people “take another dimension” in relation to the subject, based on the figure of Malbrán on the new banknotes and remarked that President Alberto Fernández was the first president to tour the Institute twice.
“A regional public health at the service of the people, It’s what we deserve,” he concluded.
