2023-10-25 20:14:42
Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
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Even though hospitals in Cuba present a personnel deficit, the government continues to send professionals outside the country to fulfill an “internationalist mission,” and this time there will be 37 nurses who will fly to the Bahamas in November.
According to The Tribune newspaper, which cites statements by Michael Darville, Minister of Health of the Bahamas, in early November about 50 health professionals from Cuba and Ghana will arrive in this country to alleviate the prolonged shortage of nurses in that territory.
About 18 Ghanaian nurses will work at Princess Margaret Hospital and Rand Memorial Hospital, along with another 37 Cuban health professionals, something that will prevent Bahamian nurses from working fewer hours and not becoming too exhausted.
In this sense, Darville expressed: “We did an evaluation and realized that there is a shortage of human resources in our hospitals and we need foreign experts in the country while we begin to train Bahamians,” who also assured that they have been recruiting personnel. In Philippines.
Cuban nursing staff would work as laboratory technicians, X-ray technicians, physical therapists, nurses and biomedical engineers.
Although this new brigade has not been confirmed by the island’s Ministry of Public Health, it was known a few days ago, via the Prensa Latina agency, about the hiring of Ghanaian nurses.
Let us remember that at the beginning of 2022, the US State Department published a report accusing the Bahamian government of “human trafficking” with the Cuban nurses it had recently hired, but this fact was flatly denied by Prime Minister Philip Davis.
Likewise, the US made it clear that the Bahamas met the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, but that it was not doing enough, as some victims of trafficking could be, precisely, those who arrive from other countries for labor contracts.
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