Wednesday, August 5 2009
THE EDITOR: In a recent report from the USA, there is a story on Cuban
doctors, re: that it is better to be a nurse in the USA than being a
doctor in Cuba.
The report states that Cuba is short of primary care physicians yet
Miami is awash with Cuban doctors. Over 6,000 medical professionals
including doctors have left Cuba for Miami in the last six years.
To be registered to practise medicine in the USA, a Cuban doctor has to
pass four exams in English and then spend several years training as a
hospital intern.
There are cases of doctors failing the examinations and turning to being
male nurses. What are Trinidad's laws for foreign-trained doctors? Many
Cuban doctors are in Venezuela working in medicine but getting low pay
and in return cheap oil and other economic benefits go to Cuba.
Is this TT's deal? Hundreds of doctors graduated this year, they compete
to be sent abroad as they know, no matter where they are sent, they are
better off than in Cuba but it is also a stepping stone to a USA visa.
In the last five years 185,000 Cuban medical professionals have left
Cuba. The Cuban government allows its doctors to travel to foreign
countries to work and study: it is one of the perks of becoming a doctor.
In most countries doctors have to re-qualify by examinations and
hospital internship. Will Trinidad implement this protocol?
Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday : newsday.co.tt : (5 August 2009)
http://www.newsday.co.tt/letters/0,104975.html
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