Farense naval doctor Filipa Albergaria returns home to celebrate Navy Day

Filipa Albergaria grew up in Faro, where did he go to live when he was 1 year old

Filipa Soares Albergaria, a doctor who recently assumed the position of director of the Center for Naval Medicine (CMN), will return to Faro, the city where he grew up and studied, to participate in the Navy Day celebrations, which run until Sunday in the Algarve capital.

«Born in Luanda in 1975, it was on the precise day she turned 1 that Filipa moved to Faro with his parents and spent most of his life there, he attended 'Vila Pinto', Colégio do Alto, located in one of the old palaces of Faro», according to the Navy.

«He finished high school at the João de Deus Lyceum, where at the age of 16 his dream of serving the Portuguese Navy began. He went to Lisbon in 1993 to study Medicine, still with a military career in sight, and achieved his teenage ambition in 2001, the year he joined the Navy”, added the same entity.

Over more than twenty years of career, sea and war captain Filipa Albergaria has already held several positions at sea and on land and currently directs the Naval Medicine Center.

«The possibility of taking part in humanitarian missions was exactly what brought me to the military life for everything they bring me: clinical experience, cross-cultural friendship, true and lasting camaraderie… and peace», according to Filipa Albergaria.

Even after her entry, the current director of the CMN's connection with the Algarve region endures. In the area of ​​Ferragudo, where she spent her childhood holidays, she collaborates with a newly created Jesuit community and, in 2007, she completed her 5th year of specialty in Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Hospital de Faro.

The naval officer says that she would like to return to Faro and repay what the city has given him. He says that he would like to implement several initiatives, namely a group of Sea Cadets «who can awaken in young people from the Algarve a love for the sea and let them know a little about the 'camera spirit' of ships».

 

 



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