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Cuban trained doctors deployed in Guyana
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| Published on Friday, September 11, 2009 | Email To Friend Print Version
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Sixty-four newly registered doctors who recently after completing their training under the Guyana/Cuba scholarship programme have taken up their responsibilities as general medical practitioners at various health posts across the country.
Minister within the Ministry of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran disclosed during an interview with the Government Information Agency (GINA) that the newly trained health care professionals will be dispatched to the centres and will be rotated throughout their work attachment.
“When we constructed these facilities a few years ago we did not have enough doctors to run them and Cuba gave us an entire comprehensive team of doctors, nurses, technicians and pharmacist to run each of the facilities…Guyana was then given the opportunity to train its own young people and some of those have started to come back and perform as graduate doctors in these hospitals.”
Eleven doctors will be stationed at the Suddie Diagnostic center in Region Two to man the institution. The treatment center which opened its door in 2008 has been providing medical services to thousands of residents living in Essequibo and on the surrounding islands, including Wakenaam, Leguan, Hogg and Fort Islands. Three will be deployed to Leonora treatment center, 7 to Diamond Regional Hospital, 5 to Mahaicony, 1 to Linden and 18 to the GPHC while New Amsterdam and Port Mourant received 16.
The doctors deployed to the various hospitals will be responsible for surgeries, internal medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics, dental clinic, general x-ray and endoscopy among others.
Recently, 18 Cuban trained Guyanese doctors were deployed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) to aid the development of the services currently being provided by the institution.
Minister Ramsaran noted that in 2011 Guyana’s health care will be significantly enhanced with a further 300 Cuban trained medical practitioners added to the system.
He said it is his hope that with the additional doctors this will complement the facilities which are understaffed and reduce the burden which currently exists at the health facilities. | | | | Reads : 1238 | | | |
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