The Mayagüez Residential Center for Educational Opportunities Students Association, known by its acronym CROEM ALUMNI, reported the death of pediatrician Dr. Nelson Valentín González, known among his patients as the “city pediatrician” and one of the most prominent members of that group. students.
Dr. Valentín González, who served as director of the pediatric emergency room at Mayagüez Medical Center, died as a result of a complication in a surgical procedure.
“The doctor of medicine for children and adolescents is a graduate of the Residential Center for Educational Opportunities in Mayagüez, known by its acronym CROEM, where he had a remarkable academic achievement at the end of his studies in 1977 (4-point student) There he entered the campus Mayagüez of the University of Puerto Rico (former College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts), where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology “Magna Cum Laude”. He is originally from the town of Añasco, where he studied. He earned a doctorate in medicine with a focus in pediatrics from the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, ”said Wilson Nazario Torres, executive director of CROEM ALUMNI.
“It is important to mention that our deceased ‘croemite’ was director for 30 years of the pediatric department of the well-known Dr. Perea clinic in Mayagüez. At the time of his death, Dr. Nelson Valentín González was an associate professor at the Ponce School of Medicine, responsible for physicians residing in the pediatric area assigned to the Mayagüez Medical Center. Puerto Rico is losing one of its best pediatricians, an extraordinary human being who has managed to get his patients to call him “the pediatrician of the people” for his kindness, dedication and attention to those most in need. We would like to inform you that a wake-up call will take place next Saturday, January 30, at the Malavé de Añasco Funeral Home between 11:00 and 17:00. It is important to remember that the participants must be subjected to a temperature check, the use of a mask is mandatory and the necessary social distance will be observed in this pandemic “, concluded Nazario Torres.
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