{"id":28650,"date":"2026-03-09T18:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=28650"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:11:56","slug":"govt-says-cuba-ended-medical-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/govt-says-cuba-ended-medical-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t says Cuba ended medical partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>-assures no impact on healthcare system <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony has clarified that the withdrawal of the Cuban&nbsp;Medical Brigade from Guyana was not a decision made by the government of Guyana, but by the&nbsp;Cuban government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His statement comes amid reports suggesting that the Guyanese government had quietly ended\u00a0the long-standing partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Cuban withdrew their medical workers who were here. So the whole thing is over.&nbsp;It was done in February,&#8221;<\/strong> the minister clarified while engaging reporters on the sidelines of an event today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Anthony explained that despite this decision, not all Cuban health care workers&nbsp;departed the country when the partnership ended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that several of them chose to remain and are now employed and paid by the government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anthony also assured that the departure of the Cuban Medical Brigade will not affect&nbsp;the health care system, emphasising that measures are being implemented to&nbsp;strengthen and expand&nbsp;the local health care workforce.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;A lot of the people who were on the brigade were nurses.<\/strong> <strong>And through our training program, we are compensating [for] those that would have been withdrawn.&nbsp; Three years ago we started a registered nursing program,&nbsp;and by June of this year, we&#8217;ll be graduating close to 800 persons,&#8221;<\/strong> he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister also noted that discussions are ongoing with the government of Trinidad and&nbsp;Tobago to finalise an agreement that would allow doctors seeking employment to work locally&nbsp;once the criteria is met.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-assures no impact on healthcare system Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony has clarified that the withdrawal of the Cuban&nbsp;Medical Brigade from Guyana was not a decision made by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,350],"tags":[488,759,760,370,10,412,405,717],"class_list":["post-28650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-news","tag-488","tag-cuban-medical-brigade","tag-doctors","tag-guyana","tag-health","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news","tag-trinidad-and-tobago"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28685,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28650\/revisions\/28685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}