Health Minister Dr. Bheri Ramsaran during his budget presentation last Thursday defended the decision to bring Indian nationals to man the impending specialty hospital.
The national budget has made special provision of $672M for the construction of the specialty hospital which is a joint effort between the Governments of Guyana and India, with a line of credit from the latter.
“With the specialty hospital in Guyana, ailing Guyanese won’t need to travel overseas for corrective operations. The specialty hospital will benefit Guyanese not Indian nationals or India,” Minister Ramsaran is quoted as saying by the Government Information Agency (GINA).
The health minister queried why critics would seek to discredit the presence of Indians who will man the specialty hospital when Cubans were in their entirety manning all the diagnostic hospitals here.
Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green, in a letter in the Kaieteur News, had asked whether it was a move by the administration to re-colonise Guyana, stating that the specialty hospital would be staffed by Indian nationals, GINA noted.
