President David Granger returned to the country last night from Cuba having completed a scheduled medical evaluation at CIMEQ over the past few days and his medical specialists have said that he is in remission from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a release from the Guyana mission in Havana said today.
The President had been diagnosed with the cancer at the Centro de Investigaciones Médico Quirúrgicas (CIMEQ) last October and underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment thereafter.
The release said that CIMEQ medical specialists have “expressed complete satisfaction with the state of the President’s health and have explained that the President’s ailment is now in remission. In keeping with the strict medical procedures of the Cuban health system, he is expected to return to Cuba for another scheduled routine medical check in January 2020”.
Thereafter, the next evaluation will be in June 2020, the release said.
President Granger was received yesterday by the Cuban Foreign Affairs Vice-Minister, Ana Teresita Gonzalez Fraga, who took the opportunity of discussing some aspects of Guyana-Cuba relations with the President in the presence of Guyana’s Ambassador to Cuba, Halim Majeed.
President Granger has reiterated his gratitude to Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, the Government of Cuba, and the CIMEQ Medical Team which has been responsible for his treatment in Cuba over the past months, the release said.
