Guyana to Increase Number of Doctors with the Help of Cuba CUBA, Apr 2, 2010. - Bheri Ramsaran, Minister within the Ministry of Health in Guyana said that the amount of doctors from his country that will graduate in Cuba is higher than the number of physicians the South American nation has at the moment. The Guyanese public service of medical assistance will increase after the upcoming graduation of 301 professionals trained on the island, he pointed out. Ramsaran specified that although the areas where these doctors will begin to work are isolated, they won’t stop studying, the Prensa Latina news agency reports. He also said that a group of professionals who graduated from Havana’s Latin American Medical School received general surgery training at some of the capital’s hospitals. ELAM, founded by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, trains students of scant economic resources from Latin American and Caribbean states who will subsequently work in poor and remote areas of their countries of origin. Also studying at the institution are US youngsters that can’t pay the high cost of university degree courses. (Cubaminrex - acn)
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