President David Granger’s current radiation therapy regime, as part of his treatment for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, will conclude in the next four days, according to Guyana’s Ambassador to Cuba Halim Majeed.
President Granger has been in Cuba since April 2nd for treatment and Majeed yesterday also announced in a statement that his doctors have expressed their “full satisfaction” with his response to treatment and the overall state of his health.
While noting that the president will return to Guyana this week, Majeed said he has been keeping an active schedule in Havana.
He noted a recent visit by the Head of State to a school, Escuela Taller de la Habana in Old Havana, and his meeting with the administrative staff and two groups of trainees in a classroom situation.
The statement said the school was established in 1992 and is part of the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana. “It trains young people in a variety of skills such as masonry, plumbing and carpentry, among others, and helps them to achieve upward mobility in the system,” it explained, while adding that the president has expressed a strong interest in vocational and skills training and wanted to know and learn more about the Cuban approach to the training of Cuban youths who are not in the formal education system. He is hoping that the recently formed Guyana Youth Corps could benefit from the experience of the school and for future cooperation between the two institutions, the statement added.
Granger also visited the Cuban National Zoological Park and the National Botanic Garden of the University of Havana over the past two weeks. During his tour of both the Zoological Park and the Botanic Garden, the statement noted, he explained some aspects of Guyana’s Green State Strategy to the administrative staff and tasked the Guyana Embassy with developing Memoranda of Understanding between Guyana and those Cuban agencies.
Majeed also said that in reviewing collaboration between Guyana and Cuba in the health sector, Granger expressed a deep concern with the high incidence of cancer, heart disease and diabetes in Guyana and expressed a desire for stronger ties between medical institutions of both nations that specialise in those ailments.
