The central bank board has just approved issuing a 2,000 peso banknoteafter years of complaints from companies and banks, which saw the number of banknotes they had to move daily increase due to inflation.
The new banknote, designed in collaboration with Casa de Moneda, will feature the Malbrán Institute and Dr. Cecilia Grierson and Dr. Ramón Carrillo, pioneers in the development of medicine in the country.
On the front of the bill will be the figures of Grierson and Carrillo and on the back the building of the National Institute of Microbiology Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán, which has had a very relevant participation during the coronavirus pandemic.
“As the payments digitization process proceeds, this higher denomination banknote will improve the functioning of ATMs and at the same time streamline cash transfers,” the central bank admitted in a statement.
Cecilia Grierson was born in Buenos Aires in 1859 and died in 1934. She was the first female doctor in Argentina, graduating in 1886 from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires.
Grierson practiced as an obstetrician and kinesiologist, but was never able to work as a surgeon because she was a woman, despite having the qualifying title of the specialty.
She created the first nursing school in Latin America with a formal curriculum and was also a founding member of the Argentine Medical Association. She was also a pioneer in the idea of opening emergency rooms in various cities to help the sick with primary care.
For his part, Ramón Carrillo was born in 1906 in Santiago del Estero. He was a neurosurgeon, neurobiologist, health doctor and first Minister of Health of the Nation.
During his tenure, which lasted eight years and began in 1946, massive vaccination campaigns were carried out, making the use of the vaccination certificate mandatory for schools.
note under development
Source: Clarin
