Originally from San Cristóbal Verapaz, Alta Verapaz, the doctor and 68 -year -old Gustavo Zamora, remember how since childhood his life has been marked by medicine. His mother, Elsa Gómez was a nurse in the parish dispensary of that municipality and from there helped many people with few resources while he supported him with ordering samples and medicines. When he went to live in the capital, his father, René Zamora, served as a doctor at the Guatemalan Social Security Institute (IGSS).
The profession of their parents and serving others inclined to Zamora decided to be a doctor and surgeon more than 40 years ago.
He volunteered at the Casa Alianza Association, an entity in which he supported minors in a street situation, an experience that reinforced the main objective of his work.
“It is satisfactory to try to solve people’s health problems. They are the priority: serve them and know how to support them from the area where I work,” says the doctor.
For 30 years, he is also voluntary as a doctor and cook in the home of the elderly brothers of Belén.
Zamora patients describe it as attentive, helpful, professional, empathetic, who takes the time to listen and understand in the physical and emotional aspects of each one, to provide specific service.
Changes and setbacks
The surgeon emphasizes that medicine constantly evolves, as is the case of industrialized countries with distance surgeries that reduce recovery time, artificial intelligence in personalized diagnoses and treatments, transplants, genetic therapy, use of virtual reality for rehabilitation and patient care, among other advances.
In the social field, Zamora highlights a setback, especially in young people, in terms of the practice of ethical, social and family values: respect for older adults and land.
These, in his opinion, are fundamental to developing a fair society, along with making consistent decisions and creating a sense of community and belonging between citizens.
Objectives met
One of the professional’s greatest dreams was to have a home where he could educate his children and that with his professions contribute to the country. The major, 44, is a forestry engineer, and is currently a professor at the University of Oregon, United States. The second, 35, exercises in the 5 -star hotel area in Ireland. The third, 33, is administrator and carries out consulting in several Guatemalan companies.
Zamora hopes to retire in the short term, to then devote himself to his family, projects and personal activities that contribute his constant desires for service.
“Serve the neighbor and know how to support it from the area that I work is the most satisfactory in my career.”
Gustavo Zamora
Collect articles of interest
Zamora has been a free press subscriber for 40 years. He has also collected and passed sports, political, national, opinion and comic strips, as well as several editions of the Magazine Chicos that he used as parallel material for the study of his children.
It also retains special anatomy and science, since these have supported him to teach in university classrooms, especially in the first years of the Medicine career.
Both Zamora and their parents and children are subscribed to the print and digital editions of this morning, since it allows them to remain informed of the national and international events.
“The means of communication is free and independent, and has not been subject to any power of the State. With the information published by Press Free, decisions can be made, especially in politics, when the candidates know in each electoral process,” says the doctor.
This is the second publication of the project I tellwhere every Sunday, stories of Guatemalan subscribers of this newspaper and its valuable contribution to our country will be told.