Specialists in the field of pathology and psychiatry have for years been sorely lacking in the public healthHealth Minister,Cheap NFL Jerseys Supply,Dr Bheri Ramsaransector. And based on disclosures from Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, there is really not much that can be done to address this ever prevailing shortcoming.“It is a democratic society; we can’t put a gun to people’s head and get them trained,” said the Minister as he revealed that while there are some available scholarships,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, few doctors are willing to venture into such fields. He related that while scholarships are advertised, and in some cases even applied for,Cheap Jerseys From China Online, “there are some cases where people go through the process (applying) and at the last minute they back out.”There are notably few and aging pathologists, as there are psychiatrists, currently in the public health system.The Minister nevertheless noted that “…we continue to advertise, but in some cases probably because these fields are not romantic, there is no excitement…It is not surgery, it is not the limelight, these fields do not attract many.”He informed that while a handful may contemplate venturing into the aforementioned fields, discussions in this regard often degenerate to the types of pathology for instance, in terms of which might be more feasible, before attention is trained to other specialist fields altogether.While there have been some calls for special packages to be offered to entice young doctors to what can be deemed “less attractive specialist fields,” Minister Ramsaran, during an interview with this publication asserted that “we have to be careful how we skew the system.”He moreover noted that “the Ministry of Health and the Minister of Health cannot offer any benefits. This is a function of the Public Service Ministry which is doing a great job in administering the scholarship”.He went on to explain that if a doctor is offered a scholarship to specialise in pathology, psychiatry or any other field, he or she is expected to return to Guyana and assume operation under a standard five-year contract. This, according to the Minister, constitutes a level playing field for all doctors entering the system.Although doctors have not been gravitating to the fields of pathology and psychiatry, Dr Ramsaran said that the Ministry has been soliciting training support from Cuba for those who may eventually venture into those areas.? He moreover said that while there are challenges, “the main thing is that the Administration has leveraged this resource and I am certain that the Cubans will continue to consider having us.”Another approach that was embraced by Government through the Health Ministry sometime ago,Cheap NBA Jerseys China, was to invite a high level team from Cuba which was tasked with undertaking a review of how doctors plugged into the health sector can be better utilised.In excess of 400 locals have undergone training in Medicine in Cuba and, according to Dr Ramsaran,Nike NFL Jerseys China, furthering this collaboration has been to introduce post-graduate studies with a ‘Cuban flavour’. And embracing this tactic, he asserted, is not premised on the notion that “we have a particular bias to Cuba as against other overseas partners, but the reality is that you would have some form of continuity.”Guyana, the Health Minister theorised, “is a rainbow…as a matter of fact Guyana can teach international studies to some bigger countries where everybody co-exist peacefully – the Chinese, the Indians, the Americans, the Canadians and therefore we were hoping that Cuba could have started some post-grad programmes here.”Minister Ramsaran had previously made it clear that doctors who are the products of scholarship programmes awarded by Government are expected to serve the country for a period of five years throughout the administrative regions. He pointed out then too that the Health Ministry is required to “provide upward professional mobility by giving young professionals other opportunities” even as he noted that the health sector is always under pressure to recruit more skilled professionals.However, while there is scope for deviation, Minister Ramsaran pointed out that this move is only possible through the discretion of the administration.“The Administration has in place an arrangement whereby you (a doctor) must serve at least two and a half years,cheap jerseys cc, but it doesn’t mean that at the end of that period we will put you on a post-graduate scholarship, because there are other considerations.”The considerations, the Minister said, have been linked to unfortun