May 28, 2023, 8:30 AM
May 28, 2023, 8:30 AM
Dra. Poliana Castro (37), who recently fulfilled her dream of inaugurating her Advanced Dematology Center in Manzana 40, opened her heart to Sociales de EL DEBER to tell how she managed to develop as a professional, businesswoman and mother.
According to Castro, the road was not easy, he left his home at the age of 18 with a backpack full of dreams and went to Belém do Pará (Brazil) with the idea of studying Medicine, he passed through Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Florianópolis and Christmas. He started working in a bakery, became a manicurist and studied Nursing Assistant, a career that he later expanded with his bachelor’s degree. After four years she passed the exam for Medicine, she studied at Cesupa University in Belem do Pará, and before concluding he obtained a scholarship to specialize in Dermatology in Amsterdam (Holland).
At that time, she was pregnant with her first daughter, Geovanna, but it was not an impediment to continue training professionally, on the contrary, it was a motivation. She spent five years of her life in the Netherlands, her second son João arrived, and before completing her residency in Dermatology she met the love of her life Manuel Guzmán, a Bolivian industrial engineer who was conquered by Polyana.
He fell in love with details from the first moment, but she was not dazzled, after a while and thanks to her friend’s advice she gave herself the opportunity to meet him. The proposal to be boyfriends and formalize the relationship It was in full shift at the hospital that she practiced, it was like from novels, there was a dress waiting for her, violins played in the background and he with an immense bouquet of flowers wearing a ring.
After this, he traveled to Brazil to meet her family and her children, she also met Manuel’s family. He finished her residency and she returned to Brazil, they kept in touch and after 6 months they formalized.
Finally she came to Bolivia with her great love and they formed a beautiful family with one more member, Manuelito. They will get married in November, after 6 years of relationship.
enterprising and professional
The next stage that she lived in Bolivia was to advance professionally as a doctor, specialist in dermatology, legalized her papers and worked in important places like the Siraní Clinic and the Montalvo Clinic. Poliana is highly sought after because she is one of the few professionals who works with burns on children.
After these experiences, she opened her clinic and later her dermatological center, which, as she says, was the “consolidation of a great dream.” In Manzana 40 (12th and 18th floors) there is an advanced dermatological clinic where medical professionals specialized in dermatology attend.
The center wants to set a benchmark with state-of-the-art technological equipment and unique in the country, for facial and body treatments with excellent results. In addition, a staff of renowned national and international professionals highly trained in the United States and Brazil.
Among the treatments it offers are mesotherapy, platelet-rich plasma, microdermabrasion, botulinum toxin, wrinkle treatment, buttock harmonization, among others.
Poliana aims to continue growing and plans to open a branch in the city of La Paz soon, for which an exclusive space has been set up in the Green Tower building, in the Calacoto area.
Seeing the need in the country and the little access to low-cost aesthetic treatments, especially when it comes to burns, Poliana provides free treatments.
This care is for people burned by accidents, melasma or any sequelae at the skin level. “The person does not pay anything, he simply comes to us and we perform the tests on him,” Castro said.
They seek to be a reference center as it is in other countries and thus give their contribution to society.
Surrounded by her family, her main engine in life. Photo: Daniel Chin
With the professionals who are part of the Poliana Castro Advanced Dermatological Center. Photo: Daniel Chin
