Waiting on jobs, Cuba-trained docs invited to GPHC meeting

After several months of uncertainty as to when they would be employed, the 92 Cuban-trained doctors who completed their final year internship and graduated in August have finally seen a development in their case.

The batch of doctors had arrived in Guyana last year August after they had completed their five-year programme and were slated to continue the final internship year in Guyana. After they had completed the final year, a graduation was held for them and they were informed by the Public Service Ministry, who was initially in charge of them, that the Ministry of Public Health would take them over. After several months of being pushed around by the Ministry of Public Health and