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Govt to start budgeting for post grad progs – Health Minister

Oct 06, 2011 News

 

Government will from next year include in its national budget funding for post graduate programmes at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).  At least this is according to Senior Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, who said that this move will become imperative if such programmes are expected to be sustained.
Several post graduate programmes such as the recently launched Masters Degree in Paediatrics have been gaining much needed international support. The support over the years has been instrumental in reducing considerable cost that could have been incurred by Government.
The paediatric programme, for instance, is set to benefit from a lot of voluntary arrangements over the next few years but according to Minister Ramsammy Government has had to incur cost through grants that were obtained for other programmes.
“We cannot continue to build our post graduate programmes depending on grants and so we have accepted that the post graduate programme is a major accomplishment… We have accepted as a country that post graduate programmes are absolutely necessary and contribute as part of our development process and so we need to also budget for these things,” the Minister asserted.
At the moment the Masters Degree in Paediatrics programme is being delivered mainly by an overseas faculty drawn from Toronto, Canada, who will volunteer their services. The only expense that will be incurred by Government, according to External Director of the Programme, Dr Narendra Singh, will be the cost to accommodate the faculty during their stay, two weeks at a time, at the Project Dawn Centre at Liliendaal and for cost of transportation to and from the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Dr Singh added that there is a fairly large Diaspora in Toronto that is willing to assist the programme in many different ways. “So funding for some of these things, including the equipment, is coming from individuals in Toronto and other places in Canada.
“In addition many of my colleagues that I work with at the hospital have volunteered books and the next step is to start a resource library for paediatrics so many of these books will be donated to…”
While significant funding will eventually have to come from Government coffers for the funding of some programmes it is expected that the Paediatric programme will see more support in the near future from the corporate community.
According to Local Director of the Programme, Dr Hardat Persaud, he has commenced discussions with a few corporate individuals who have begun asking for a book list and have indicated a willingness to sponsor graduates in their third year of the programme. “We do have a lot of people who are excited about the programme and I tell you these are serious people who are already pressuring me for the booklist and journals and would be willing to sponsor all of these materials for the programme…And we are also chipping in with our personal libraries by making it available to the students…”

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