Twelve new doctors have joined the ranks of the Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA).
A special graduation ceremony marking the official completion of internship for the 12 doctors, who spent a total of seven year studying medicine (six years in Cuban and one year in Guyana), was co-hosted by the Ministry of Health and the Cuban Medical Brigade on Thursday in the boardroom of the BRHA.
The doctors are the product of a partnership between the governments of Guyana and Cuba, in which hundreds of Guyanese were sent to Cuba on a yearly basis to train to become medical doctors. These graduates left Guyana in November 2006 to
