Cuban government will send 37 nurses to the Bahamas

Despite the deficit of health personnel in Cuban health centers, the regime continues to export medical professionals to other countries, and will soon do so Bahamas, where 37 nurses will arrive at the beginning of November.

The news was confirmed Michael Darville, Minister of Health of the Bahamas, who specified that next week more than 50 health professionals from Cuba and Ghana will arrive in that country, to alleviate the prolonged shortage of nurses in the commonwealth, according to the newspaper. The Tribune.

In addition to some 18 Ghanaian nurses who will work at Princess Margaret Hospital and Rand Memorial Hospital, the arrival of 37 Cuban health professionals is also expected.

The minister described this fact as “very important” because the nurses in his country “work overtime and we don't want them to run out,” and announced that they have been recruiting in the Philippines and will also hire some Cuban nurses again.

According to the Bahamian newspaper, Darville said that The Cuban nursing staff would be laboratory technicians, X-ray technicians, physiotherapists, nurses and biomedical engineers..

"We did an assessment and realized that there is a shortage of human resources in our hospitals and we need foreign experts in the country while we begin to train Bahamians," he stated.

The doctor explained that 37 nurses are receiving training in the Clinical Nurse Training Program, recently launched at the Public Hospital Authority Academy.

The recruitment of new Cuban health personnel by the government of the Bahamas has not been confirmed by the Cuban Ministry of Public Health. However, in the middle of this month the official agency Latin Press He did echo the hiring of Ghanaian nurses who will arrive next week in Bahamian territory.

While the shortage of health personnel in Cuba has a significant impact on the quality of health care for the population, The regime exports professionals to alleviate shortages in other countries and improve their medical services.

At the beginning of last year, the State Department of The United States told the Bahamian government that the Cuban nurses it had recently hired were “victims of human trafficking.”, a fact that Prime Minister Philip Davis denied.

In a report, the US warned that the former British colony met minimum standards for eliminating human trafficking, but could do much more, and that People who may be victims of trafficking include those who arrive from other countries with employment contracts..