Why The Unqualified Cuban Doctors Will Kill The Ghanaian People

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Once renowned, Cuban Doctors fail their medical Exams

Dr. Nancy Magarita Gonzalez Rodriguez goes over an x-ray with her students at the Latin American School of Medical Sciences in Havana, Cuba. Students who graduate from the Caribbean and try to practise in Brazil have overwhelmingly failed a medical exam there, according to Brazil's Ministry of Education.

Many people still believe that Cuban health care is among the most efficient in the world, as it is often advertised by the regime, but the same doctors who support the supposed renowned health care system on the Caribbean island, however, are struggling to re-validate their diploma to practise legally in Brazil.

At the most recent re-validation test, which includes proficiency in Portuguese, their medical knowledge and clinical practises, none of the doctors who graduated from Cuba were approved. From 2005 to the present day the most recent exam administered more than 300 Cuban doctors have applied, but only 25 doctors were authorised officially to work in Brazil, according to the Ministry of Education.

Their results, in fact, ARE AMONG THE WORST of the average of 600 professionals, ranging in homelands from Argentina, Bolivia, the United States and European counties who go through the process.

The Brazilian Medical Association attributes the apparent failure of so many doctors in the test to the lack of quality of universities in countries like Cuba and Bolivia. According to the association, the teaching of medicine in these places are at the level of a nursing major in Brazil.

In the United States, the situation is similar. According to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, more than 75 percent of those with Cuban medical degrees fail in the exam of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates for licensing in the U.S.

Most of them also fail to receive certification as “physician assistants”.

For Humberto Fontova, a Cuban refugee and political commentator in the U.S., the results are not a surprise. “The Cuban health students don't learn what most medical students in most countries learn in most medical schools,” Fontova said.

Since former president, LuizInácio Lula Silva, took office in 2003 the government tried to facilitate the use of the work from Cuban doctors in Brazil. A proposal of automatic authorisation for all doctors from the island to work in Brazil was approved in the House of Representatives, but later reproved by the Senate.

Despite that, many Cuban doctors are being encouraged by both governments to come to Brazil's poorest areas. One of the reasons is the Brazilian government's program for “The Health of the Family,” which is focused on preventive care a speciality of the Cuban health system.

*** Meanwhile, Governor Ricardo MontinhoParaíba, a northern state and one of the poorest in the nation, went to Cuba in September to hire doctors. But according to Paraíba Council of Physicians, just one Cuban was approved to be a doctor in the state. Montinho later gave up on the idea. “I just wanted to improve the services of my state,” said Montinho.

*** In the very distant centre-western state of Tocantins more than 500 Cuban doctors were hired illegally to work for “The Health of the Family.” A state court decided to ban the work of these professionals.

The medical associations in Brazil deny that doctors don't want to work in poor and distant areas. They also say that there is no way to adopt a different procedure and doctors working illegally would be prosecuted. “We just need a good career plan for the doctors to go into the interior. We can't open exceptions for specific countries and have to ask for a test like other countries do with us. Argentina and U.S. have good universities and their students are approved here,” said Dr. Fernando Matos, president of Rio Grande do Sul's Council of Physicians, who worries about the work of Uruguayans doctors in his state border.

*** The test, however, has been criticised by Brazilians who study in other countries. At a private institution, they pay over $1,500 a month for tuition, while in Cuba it's no more than $200. In Cuba, moreover, applicants just need approval from the Workers Party, the Brazilian Communist Party or other institutions aligned with Castro's regime. “The test is really to reprove everybody”, has said AfonsoMagalhães, president of the Association of Brazilian Students of Medicine in Cuba.

Ghanaian people must be very careful about those bogus Cuban quark Doctors in Ghana. Most of them are not really qualified as Doctors.

FRANCIS TAWIAH (Duisburg - Germany)

Cuban's doctors in Ghana work for $150 a month

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The arrival of the Cuban doctors, according to the Minister of Health, Ms Sherry Ayittey, had nothing to do with doctors’ strike in the country, which is in its third week

Three hundred and fifty Cuban doctors have arrived in the country to support healthcare delivery under a medical service and educational agreement between Ghana and Cuba.

The Cuban doctors will not be paid salaries but rather receive monthly allowances of $150 and free accommodation.

The arrival of the Cuban doctors, according to the Minister of Health, Ms Sherry Ayittey, had nothing to do with doctors’ strike in the country, which is in its third week.

Already, 250 young Ghanaians have left for Cuba to be trained as doctors.
The Ghana-Cuba medical service and educational agreement was signed at a ceremony in Accra yesterday.

Ms Ayitey signed for Ghana, while the Cuban Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Jorge F. Lefebre Nicolas, initialled for Cuba.

In her remarks, Ms Ayitey explained that the partnership between the two countries started 20 years ago and had no bearing on the current strike by doctors.

She said the medical assistance from Cuba formed part of efforts by the Ghana government to enhance the doctor-patient ratio and accordingly improve on accessibility to healthcare delivery.

She said currently there were 2,843 doctors for a population of about 25 million, giving a ratio of one doctor to 10,000 patients, a situation which affected the delivery of quality health care.

Ms Ayitey said every two years the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding to renew the agreement.

On the training of Ghanaian doctors in Cuba, she said the students, who were selected from deprived districts, would be made to serve in their respective areas after qualifying.

For his part, Mr Nicolas said the agreement attested to the strong partnership between the two countries in the health sector.

He explained that the agreement allowed for Ghanaian doctors to be trained in Cuba, while Cuban doctors would come to the country to offer healthcare services, adding that Cuban doctors who were currently in Ghana worked mostly in public hospitals.

Mr Nicolas said for the past 20 years, Cuban doctors had been working in Ghana to support efforts by the government to improve the health system.

So far, he said, Cuba had trained more than 1,100 Ghanaian doctors in different fields of medicine, adding, “our purpose is to contribute to the effort made by the government of Ghana in the health sector”.

Can we Ghanaians Trust our Lives on Cuba -trained Doctors?

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Ghana and Cuba have a mutual arrangement to train Ghanaians who have a clout to study medicine and qualify to be doctors under a Cuba government scholarship scheme. This very kind gesture of the Cuban authorities is not demanding any form of reciprocity, neither by way of exchange of same nor by payment in kind; thanks to the leadership arrangements of ex-President Rawlings. For many years now, some selected Ghanaians continue to flock into Havana – Cuba to be trained in the medical sciences and other allied fields for the benefit of Ghanaians. The objective of this offer of training by Cuba is to save lives and an ability to postpone death where necessary by capable trained hands, competent enough to fulfil this unique objective as enshrined in the Hippocritic oath ingeminated in the Helsinki and Nuremberg declarations. To achieve this objective, capable students with the relevant clout and capacity-building must be the sole criteria for selection, yet what we see in Ghana is a nepotic selection of favourates based on Party political colours and flavour; a selection of incapable Party faithful with no smattering of knowledge in anatomical and biological sciences but can only qualify for selection by reason of Party-belonging where the said Party is the ruling authority, hence even housemaids with the poorest of poor SHS grades are pushed on to pursue a course of training to become doctors in Cuban institutions where they are enroled as a matter of protocol curtesy without checking their academic and vocational suitability.

The image inserted in this script is my uncle who walked into Sefwi Wiawso hospital on an arranged appointment to undergo a surgical operation to remove a hernia. To his woe, he walked into this hospital with intent to undergo a healing process on a surgical table but ended up on a butcher’s table only to be carried home in a coffin. Nana Kwaku Besseah, Agyaaku as he was affectionately called, walked into the hospital on Monday 4th November 2006 with his full life in vigour and agility, was butchered and pronounces dead the following day as a result of some botched up surgical operation performed by a Cuba-trained ‘Doctor’, a butcher indeed, leaving behind a widow and six hapless children. This hospital, staffed with surgeons trained-in-Cuba of a high magnitude of incompetence did not accept vicarious responsibility on grounds of bioethical incompetence and impropriety in the conduct of the operation by the said ‘doctor’/butcher. There have been similar such cases across Ghana where victims have suffered untold jeopardy at the hands of medically incompetent doctors who are later identified to have been trained in Cuba.
A young woman in Berekum claimed on Hot FM radio to have suffered loss of her entire womb a few weeks ago through a supposed medical treatment at an approved hospital. This woman who will remain childless for the rest of her life complained to the authorities for compensation yet what she received was insults and vilification by the hospital authorities. Ghana needs stricter laws governing the medical profession whereby incompetence can be punished either jointly or severally as it pertains in other countries as a way to foster competence. R v Adomako (1994) All ER vol 74 is a cited case involving medical negligence in English Law against incompetence.  More >>

Corrupcion y entrenamiento de medicos extranjeros en Cuba. El caso ghanes

el acuerdo entre cuba y el gobierno ghanes para entrenar medicos de esa nacionalidad en cuba asciende a 105,000 cedis [55,702 usd], mientras que similar entrenamiento es posible realizarlo en ghana por 30,000 cedis [15,915 usd].

Felix Kwakye Ofosu

considerando que el actual presidente ghanes john mahama sabe aritmetica, a algun lugar iran a parar los casi 40 mil dolares norteamericanos por medico -a la tasa de cambio de hoy de 1 USD = 1.88500 GHS] y probablemente se la repartan al 50% con la contraparte cubana. 

la noticia del asunto que salio a relucir en el debate presidencial la trae: Myjoyonline.com/ Nathan Gadugah 

A firebrand of the ruling National Democratic Congress and Convener of the Research and Advocacy Platform Felix Kwakye Ofosu has described as “slip” wrong figures provided by President John Mahama during the IEA Presidential Debate on the training of Ghanaian doctors in Cuba.
Felix Kwakye Ofosu was however critical of the New Patriotic Party flagbearer accusing him of lying and deliberate falsehood on the same matter.
The President in answering a question on how he will improve health delivery in the country if retained in office, said among other things that he had initiated a Cuban arrangement in which Ghanaian students will be trained as doctors in Cuba.

His contender Nana Addo in the debate questioned the financial prudence of the Cuban arrangement which he said costs, 105,000 cedis. He argued the amount was too exorbitant, given that Ghanaian doctors are trained here at 30,000 cedis far cheaper than what the Cuban arrangement is offering.  More >>