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Guyana/Cuba collaboration…Intern programme progressing well
– Health Minister
The local public health arena has seen an influx of students from the Guyana/Cuba scholarship programme to complete a period of internship, a process which, according to Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, is going well, but not without a few challenges.
As part of the Guyana/Cuba collaboration, the Minister said, some 64 Guyanese medical students have returned home from Cuba to complete their final year which constitutes a period of internship at the various hospitals countrywide.
Dr Leslie Ramsammy
The Minister disclosed that while this is not the first year that the programme has been engaged, the number of students involved this time around has significantly increased as part of the Ministry’s attempt to scale up the venture.
The students who all returned to Guyana earlier this year are stationed at public hospitals including at the New Amsterdam, Georgetown, Mahaicony, and Suddie hospitals as well as the Diamond and Leonora Diagnostic Centres, and wherever qualified personnel are around to supervise them, the Minister noted.
It is expected that the internship of the current batch of students will be completed during the course of next year.
But although the actual learning sessions that the students are engaged in are progressing well, the Minister said that there is, and will always be, challenges that will confront the Ministry.
Among the challenges being faced is the fact that the Ministry has to ensure that the necessary facilities are available to the students in order to facilitate their learning exposure.
In this regard, too, the Minister pointed out that there is need for the relevant skilled personnel to be in the vicinity of the students throughout their learning process. As a result, he said that the interns have to be rotated from one health facility to another.
But according to the Minister, it is the rotation process, which is absolutely necessary, that has proven to be the most challenging of all.
He noted that the students as part of the programme are moved for instance from the Suddie Hospital to the Georgetown Hospital in order to access specific training.
In rotating the students, he explained, accommodation can sometimes prove to be a problem since they represent a large number of outside staffing that the Ministry is obligated to cater for.
The challenge of accommodation is compounded by the fact that the Ministry has expanded its nursing programme.
Nonetheless, Minister Ramsammy noted that every possible measure will be engaged to ensure that the interns are comfortably accommodated and that the programme yields its expected success.
Meanwhile, the Minister revealed that another batch of students is expected to arrive in Guyana by year end to take up their period of internship, which, according to him, will remain a continuous feature.
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