23 Young Medex and 79 doctors yet to find employment

Nov 12, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
I wonder if anyone including Mr Anil Nandlall, is aware that there are 23 trained Medex who were supposed to have completed their four (4) years training (2011-2015) and graduated from the University of Guyana with an Associate Degree in 2015, but had their programme extended to early 2016, are yet to find employment too. They too have signed a contract with the Government of Guyana through the Ministry of Public Health Service and were told that they would be assigned to the various health centres across the 10 regions.
This year is almost over and the University of Guyana graduation is days away, apart from one meeting with the Junior Minister of Health and other Health officers, nothing much was said and no one has called to inform them if they would be graduating or be out of a job for yet another year. Most of these persons are at home or trying desperately to apply for any job elsewhere. It is not as if these persons are not calling up these offices, but you cannot get through to these officials because they are always in a meeting and their secretaries would tell you that you cannot have an audience with them without little or no explanation.
Had they gone to Cuba, they would’ve been returning next year as doctors. But they decided to stay in their native land to further their studies. These youngsters also have the commendable academic qualifications, all of them having over five (5) or ten (10) C.X.C’s and even a couple with UG first degree.
They heeded the ‘vote like boss’ call and voted for the new government and are now disappointed since they told that cannot be hired without their certificates as they were told ‘they don’t want them to kill anyone’. I wonder how many of the persons who died at G.P.H C and other Health facilities were killed by the batch of Medex prior to the 2011 batch and who have not graduated either but are working throughout the country.
It is my hope that those in authority will help these young people, as they have claimed time and again that “they are for the youth”. Also it will be 23 more fully trained young health professionals in our health care system.
Frustrated Graduate

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