“Kindness does not need noise”: Recognition of the legacy of Dr. Rudy Coronado

The delivery of recognition Doctor of the Year that the State Congress yesterday posthumously given to the doctor Rudy Humberto Coronado Bastarrachea highlights the human legacy and service that the doctor carved in 40 years of professional practice.

In a solemn session the president of the board of directors, Alejandro Cuevas Mena, presented the allusive plaque of recognition “Doctor of the Year of the State of Yucatán” to the wife and son of the honoree: Ana Desideria Góngora Puga and Rudy Omar Coronado Góngora.

As witnesses to this state recognition were the Secretary General of the Government, Omar Pérez Avilés; Morena’s deputy, Wilmer Monforte Marfil, president of the Government and Political Coordination Board; and the judge of the Superior Court of Justice, Hernán Vega Burgos, who for the first time publicly represents the State Judicial Branch.

“Your legacy is not erased with time or distance. You lived as you thought and that in these times is a form of heroism,” emphasized the son of the winner in his speech.

“You taught us that kindness does not need noise, that duty fulfilled does not require applause and that serving others is the most beautiful way to transcend. You taught us that science and humanity can go hand in hand and that medicine when practiced with love becomes a form of eternity,” he noted.

“Today Yucatán honors you and we, your family, celebrate you with tears of pride and with the certainty that you fulfilled your mission on earth,” he noted.

“Your name, Rudy Humberto Coronado Bastarrachea, will be forever recorded among the great doctors of our State. But beyond the titles and recognitions, the memory of the good man you were will remain with us.”

Doctor and teacher

Rudy Omar highlighted that his father dedicated more than four decades of his life to serving, teaching and caring for health of the Yucatecans because his office was not limited to one space, but rather he took his science to all corners of Yucatán.

“My father was not a man of many words, but he was of many deeds. From a very young age he had a clear conviction that he repeated throughout his life: The doctor does not belong to himself. His time, his knowledge and his heart belong to the community,” he stressed.

“Under that premise, he lived for more than 40 years, working tirelessly in different areas of public health, in hospitals, rural health centers, prevention programs, university teaching and institutional management.”

“His vocation was not limited to a single office, his office was entire Yucatan“, he reiterated. “Since the streets of Merida To the most remote communities in the east and south of the state my father always carried the message: Health is a right, not a privilege. And the duty of those who promote it is to do so with respect, with empathy and with love for people.”

Likewise, he recalled that the doctor Rudy Humberto He directed several institutions of the state system, as he was director of health centers such as those in Ticul and Tekaxin addition to state head of vectors, director of planning, director of the General Hospital of Valladolid, head of Health Jurisdiction number two for more than 14 years, and deputy director of quality and health education, which was his last position.

“He actively participated in different health campaigns, endemic disease control programs and health education projects in rural communities,” the speaker recalled.

“He always insisted that Prevention was the most powerful medicine and that is why he worked with teachers, with community leaders and young people to promote healthy habits. “He always said that a healthy town is a strong town and that the true success of a doctor is not measured in consultations, but is measured in the number of lives transformed.”

“His contact with the people and his humanism meant that the communities did not receive him as a simple official, but as a friend. He listened, took notes, asked, understood and acted. He knew that public health only works when it is built with the people, not from a distance.”

“As a teacher, he understood that teaching does not end in the classroom. and that the true legacy of a teacher is measured by what he inspires, not by what he imposes. Beyond his scientific training, he was also a humanist, convinced that medicine should be practiced ethically and with compassion.

“He never allowed a patient’s lack of resources to be an obstacle to receiving care. In his medical bag there was always more than instruments, there was faith, hope and commitment and in his words there was always respect.

“He saw in each patient not just a number or a file, but a story, a life, a family, and that deeply human vision accompanied him until the last day of his life.

“His concern for people with limited resources was always a constant. He said that poverty should not be synonymous with oblivion and that the doctor has the moral obligation to reach out to those who need it most. That was his philosophy, his creed and his cause.

In addition to his medical and human virtues, he described that Dr. Rudy Coronado was a loving husband, attentive father, loving grandfather, a man with firm convictions, a simple manner, with deep faith, but an open mind; of few words, but of many actions.

He also said that His desk at home is still full of books and notebooks with notes. His glasses rest on the reports he liked to review and his robe hangs in the same place where he last left it.. His belongings even give the impression that at any moment he will walk through the door with his slow voice and calm smile.

His physical absence does not mean oblivion because his legacy is alive. He lives in his patients, in his colleagues, in his students, in his family and in his town.

“Thank you dad for your life, for your example and for your love. Rest in peace knowing that your work continues and that this recognition is not goodbye, but a thank you that will forever resonate in the hearts of those of us who knew you and loved you,” he concluded his applauded speech on the platform.

He Morena deputy Daniel Quintal González, president of the Nomination Commission for the recognition, read the profile of the honoree in which he highlighted his dedication, ethics and commitment to his profession and social justice.

“Dr. Coronado understood that health is not measured in numbers, but in well-being, in lives saved and in communities served,” the legislator highlighted.

“The recognition honors a doctor whose dedication was much more than a profession, it was a commitment to life, the community and the dignity of each person,” he noted.

After the recognition, deputies, officials, including the Secretary of Health, Judith Ortega Canto, congratulated the family and took photographs

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