The infant hospital in this city known as or Ancient Spanish Colony, from Friday July 24 will be called "Dr. Antonio Maria Béguez César ", a tribute to who is considered the father of pediatrics at the eastern region of Cuba.
"It is an enduring tribute to the memory of who is regarded with respect and fairness, the Father of Pediatrics in the Cuban eastern provinces and one of the most illustrious doctors santiagueros of all time," added Sanchez Peña.
The current South Pediatric is located in what was the Sanatorium of the Spanish Colony in this city, which is why a segment of the population of this city still says, referring to the care unit, "I will take the child to the Spanish Cologne ... ".
Dr. Antonio Maria Béguez César was born in 1895 in Santiago de Cuba and died in 1975 after having a life devoted to medicine and within this to the attention of humans during childhood, and especially to research life. .

An article also signed by Sánchez Peña under the title Dr. Antonio Maria Béguez César (1895-1975): from plagiarism to historical truth, provides documentary evidence underlying the historical truth of the precedence of Béguez Cesar in the discovery of chronic familiar neutropenia with atypical malignant granulations of leukocytes, commonly reported as Chediak-Higashi syndrome.
He explains that fragments of information published on the finding presented and updated, innovative and reliable literature regarding such an important and controversial issue.
And ends by saying, that other personal and professional aspects of Dr. Béguez Cesar also addresses whose outstanding achievements made him worthy of perpetually inclusion among the eminent personalities of Cuban science.
Remember that many investigations and its authors had been forgotten or at the time they were relegated to negligible levels and the proper work of the Lic. Maria Antonia says that one of the most outstanding examples is the illustrious Cuban pediatrician Dr. Antonio Maria Béguez César, born in the current Santiago province on March 2, 1895 and died here, the morning of February 11, 1975.
Before the Cuban pediatrics qualifies as a specialty that more advanced, even before the triumph of the Revolution when it did not have a decisive government support, but acknowledged that there was always opposed bright pediatricians and between Dr. Béguez appears, who attends numerous scientific events in Cuba and internationally.
Finally, in the closing session of the First Latin American Conference of Hematology held in Havana in February 1973, the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba and representatives of Latin American countries attending the scientific event, officially acknowledged that the discoverer of the misnamed "Chediak-Higashi disease" it was Dr. Antonio Maria Béguez Cesar.