...Ghanaian Doctors Flee
A team of medical doctors and paramedics from Cuba are in the country to support the health sector. They replace 117 Cuban medical personnel from that country?s medical brigade who left the country after a two year service.

The new team is currently undergoing a 10-day orientation course that will help them to get adapted to the new environment. The head of the Cuban medical brigade, Enrique Colas Perez, indicated that the 10-day orientation course was to help improve the medical personnel?s knowledge about diseases they would encounter in Ghana, which they might not have encountered before. It was also to improve their communications skills not only in English but also in local languages.

?We must be a model of good behaviour, a model of solidarity and brotherhood not only with our patients, but also with the whole society in Ghana,? he said. Enrique Colas Perez urged his colleagues to work together with the Ghanaian health personnel and collaborate to improve the health status of the Ghanaians.

Cuban specialists have been working in Ghana as part of a mutual governmental agreement after a proposal made by Fidel Castro to help the poorest nations. The majority the island?s doctors offer medical attention in the most isolated areas of the countries in which they are to be found.