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‘Establish footprints here to train nurses’ – Pres. Ali tells accredited Canadian institutions
Kaieteur News – President Irfaan Ali has turned to accredited Canadian institutions to assist Guyana and the Caribbean in training nurses. The President was at the time alluding to the shortage of nurses in the Region and encouraged the Canadian institutions to establish footprints here to meet the existing demand.
The President was at the time speaking at a reception hosted by the Canadian High Commission to mark the 156th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada.
The President in his remarks mentioned that just like Guyana, Canada is also faced with human resource shortfalls in different areas and that there is a very deliberate plan “that they are embarking on to find that human resource deficit in different fields and in different areas.”
Pointing specifically to nursing, the Head-of-State said, “This is an area in which CARICOM as a Region is severely challenged as in the cycle of the movement of labour. We see more attractive markets, attracting our medical workers, our nurses, leaving a deficit in our system and then within CARICOM itself, the more attractive markets would pull from within the system leaving further deficit in some countries.”
President Ali said it is important for development partners in the Caribbean Region to examine the human resource constraints and identify the areas facing the said countries.
The President said while there are talks about a joint approach between countries on the big issues like energy, food, climate change and the exchanging of tremendous ideas and collaboration in many international forums, there should also be a joint approach in addressing issues like human resource deficits.
“It is important I think as we celebrate today that we take a joint approach in terms of the human resource deficit and to see how we can work out a common agenda through which we can build a system to support the requirements of both countries and our region as a whole,” he expressed.
President Irfaan Ali on Thursday at the reception event hosted by the Canadian High Commission in Guyana to mark the 156th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada. (Photo courtesy, President’s Facebook page)
Further, President Ali said he wants to position Guyana as an important destination for the provision of regional human resource assets to meet the skill deficits of countries around the world.
“And here is where there is a tremendous opportunity for Canada and Guyana in which we are building the infrastructure for training institutions to train for global needs. So High Commissioner, we encourage Canadian accredited institutions to establish their footprints in Guyana for the training of nurses to meet your own demand, for the training of medical technicians to meet your own demands and also to meet the Regional demand which includes our own demand,” the President shared.
On Wednesday, President Ali said that his government is in talks with the Government of Cuba to have nurses from the Spanish-Speaking country join Guyana’s workforce. In fact, President Ali said he spoke with Cuba’s Ambassador to Guyana Jorge Francisco Soberón Luis on the issue.
“Only yesterday (Tuesday), I met with a number of nurses at the Georgetown Public Hospital and they were so happy for the work, they were doing, and that some of them are doubling up on shifts because of the shortage. When I spoke to the administration of the Georgetown Public Hospital, it was said they now have hundreds of nurses short of their full complement,” he related.
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