Haydee Gómez Cascante

Haydee Gómez Cascante (6 July 1926 – 12 January 2024) was a Costa Rican obstetrician nurse and educator who worked in the Ministry of Public Health for 37 years. While there, she consulted for the World Health Organization, and became the regional field director for the International Confederation of Obstetricians. For several years she was an external professor of the maternal-child program at the School of Nursing at the University of Costa Rica. She was also the director of the Nursing School of Costa Rica. Throughout her career, she advocated for the availability of family planning options to improve the quality of life of women and their families and she was inducted into the country's Gallery of Women for her public health work.

Career Gomez worked from 1947 to 1948 with Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera, assisting in his private practice. The following year, she worked at the Hospital of the Compañía Bananera de Costa Rica in Quepos while also working in the operating room of the Hospital Calderón Guardia.

Memberships

Association of Retired Nurses Electoral Tribunal of the College of Nurses Center Association of Family Orientation Health Board of the Women's Hospital (2004)