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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

CUBAN DOCTORS TO SOLOMON ISLANDS

SIBCOnline News
19:24 hrs
20/03/2007

Ten specialist medical doctors from the Caribbean nation of Cuba are to start filling up line positions at the National Referral Hospital by May this year.The Minister for Health and Medical Services, Clay Forau and his Foreign Affairs counterpart Patteson Oti announced in a joint press conference today.The government initially requested 40 medical doctors, but only 10 are immediately available to take up the posts.

More Cuban doctors will fill in as they become available.Foreign Minister Oti said the arrangement to bring in health personnel from Cuba stemmed from a Cooperation Framework Agreement he had just signed with his Cuban counterpart.He said Cuba also offered to provide 50 scholarships for Solomon Islanders to undertake medical training in Cuba.Mr Oti said he was meeting with the Education Minister Dr Derick Sikua this afternoon to sort out details of the training program.

He said Solomon Islands hopes to send its first medical students to Cuba by September this year.Mr Oti said this undertaking has been on the drawing board since year 2000, and is not a sudden undertaking by both countries.The Health Minister Mr Forau said it takes a sick person to appreciate what government is doing.He said government's concern is meeting the need of the most important stakeholder which is the sick patient.

Mr Forau said the arrangement will also provide the opportunity for local doctors to work alongside their Cuban colleagues.He said Public Service recruitment rules and processes will be applied in the selection of the Cuban doctors.Meanwhile, Health and Medical Services Minister Mr Forau says getting medical doctors from Cuba is much cheaper than recruiting from the international open market.He says to get a doctor from the open market would cost about 400-thousand dollars a year.Mr Forau says the total package of local doctors stands at 170-thousand dollars, whilst doctors from Cuba will be getting 180-thousand dollars in the first year they arrive.He says the amount will be reduced in their second or third years.

The minister says the their annual packages for the first year is higher because it includes their airfares which the Solomon Islands government is meeting.Mr Forau say government is only paying the Cuban doctors an allowance of 300-US dollars a month, whilst the Cuban government meets the rest.The minister says the Cuban doctors are here to help local doctors and not take away their privileges.

" We want to encourage our local doctors that these people are here to help them. Some will be here to help them carry the load they have been carrying. If I were a doctor I will see it as a good thing. They will be here to help the local doctors, not to take away their privileges. We will have a mechanism in place to ensure the doctors comply with the arrangements they sign."Foreign Minister Oti says the Cuban doctors will also be accorded the same conditions which government has applied to similar recruitment arrangements.

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