The Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana announced that 200 cuban nurses They will arrive in that South American country at the beginning of 2024.
Despite the deficit of health personnel in Cuba's health centers and continuous complaints about poor care in the sector, the regime confirmed the news through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Cuba will continue to strengthen international medical cooperation with the purpose of saving and improving the quality of life of the Guyanese people,” said the aforementioned ministry, which seems to downplay the quality of life faced by the citizens of its own country.
“During the year 2023, 80 Cuban nurses were hired,” they specify. But the figure is insufficient "due to the need for workers that the brother Caribbean country faces in that sector," they add.
In a press conference held this Friday, the Guyanese Minister of Health, Frank Anthony, highlighted that the Cuban nurses who are already carrying out a mission in the country have given good results, which is why the presence of Antillean health personnel will increase.
The agreement with the Cuban authorities will force professionals who arrive in that territory to undergo an intensive three-month course to effectively integrate into the health system.
At the beginning of November, another group of Cuban nurses arrived in the Bahamas.
The Minister of Health of that island, Michael Darville, he told the newspaper The Tribune that that country received more than 50 health professionals from Cuba and Ghana, to alleviate the prolonged shortage of nurses in the commonwealth.
In addition to about 18 Ghanaian nurses who will work at Princess Margaret Hospital and Rand Memorial Hospital, they also arrived 37 Cuban health professionals.
According to the Bahamian newspaper, Darville said that the Cuban nursing staff would be laboratory technicians, X-ray technicians, physical therapists, nurses and biomedical engineers.
These hires are excellent news for the Havana regime that only pays its internationalist doctors less than 20% of the cost it charges for their services.
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