Thursday, February 2, 2023 | 5:40 p.m.
The Board of Directors of the Central Bank (BCRA) approved the issuance of a new $2,000 note and it will be integrated into the current Peso Line. “The new bill was designed in collaboration with Casa de Moneda and commemorates the development of science and medicine in Argentina,” it was officially announced.
In this way, it will have as protagonists the National Institute of Microbiology Dr. Carlos Malbrán, on the back and Dr. Cecilia Grierson and Dr. Ramón Carrillo, precursors in the development of medicine in our country, on the obverse.
The BCRA promotes the use of electronic means of payment in transactions with innovative measures that allow its development from the Transference 3.0 program.
Immediate transfers had a year-on-year growth in December 2022 of 98.8% in quantities and 18.7% in amounts; and payments with interoperable QR transfers grew by 41.4% year-on-year as of December last year.
The development also extended to check payment. ECHEQ’s share of the total compensated reached 33.1% in quantities and 57.9% in amount.
“While the payment digitization process progresses, this higher denomination bill will improve the operation of ATMs and at the same time optimize the transfer of cash,” confirmed the entity led by Miguel Pesce.
Who were Cecilia Grierson, Ramón Carrillo and Carlos Malbrán
Dr. Cecilia Grierson was the first doctor in Argentina, graduated in 1886 from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires. She worked as an obstetrician and kinesiologist, but she was never able to work as a surgeon because of her status as a woman, despite having the qualifying title of the specialty.
She created the First School of Nursing in Latin America with a formal curriculum, and was also a founding member of the Argentine Medical Association. She also pioneered the idea of opening first aid rooms in different towns to help with primary care for the sick. She played a key role during the cholera epidemic that affected the City of Buenos Aires in 1886.
Dr. Ramón Carrillo was a neurosurgeon, neurobiologist, sanitary doctor and the first Minister of Health of the Nation. Carrillo graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, in 1929, with a Medal of Honor. He was also Full Professor of the Chair of Neurosurgery at the Faculty of Medicine and abandoned his brilliant career as a neurologist to dedicate himself to the development of social medicine (sanitary).
Carrillo made a great transformation in the public health of our country from a social conception of medicine. He is recognized for the legacy of his ideas, principles and foundations of his actions, among which is the following: “All men have an equal right to life and health.”
The National Administration of Laboratories and the Dr. Carlos Malbrán Health Institute is a decentralized public body, whose fundamental mission is to participate in scientific and technical policies related to health aspects of the public sphere. It was formally founded in 1893 with the aim of producing biological products to treat infectious diseases.
The institution adopted the name of the famous doctor in 1941. Important scientists such as Nobel Prize winners Bernardo Houssay and César Milstein worked at the Malbrán. The professionals who today carry out tasks in this institution were responsible for carrying out the analyzes and detecting the cases of coronavirus during the hardest times of the pandemic.
