The medical community criticizes the educational model after the suicide of a Javeriana resident

Last Wednesday, July 17, Catalina Gutiérrez Zuluaga, a first-year surgical resident at the Pontifical Javeriana University in Bogotá, took her own life. Soon after his departure, a pressure cooker was uncovered in the medical community that had rarely been seen in Colombia. Before committing suicide, the student signed a note dedicated to her classmates. “To all the residents, thank you, I take a lot of lessons from each one of them. I will alwa…

Following the suicide death of Dr. Catalina Gutiérrez Zuluaga, a resident physician at the Javeriana University, and the debate it sparked within the medical community, Liberal Party representative to the House of Representatives, Álvaro Rueda, announced a political control debate with the Ministry of Education to monitor the actions the government will implement to mitigate violence against students. Rueda emphasized this during the opening of …

Liberal representative Álvaro Rueda will ask the official to explain what actions they are going to implement to end violence against students.