Leah So­rias

Cuban Am­bas­sador Hum­ber­to Rivero Rosario is as­sur­ing that the 35 new Cuban nurs­es who have been added to T&T's health sec­tor will do their jobs well.

"Be con­fi­dent that they would ac­com­plish their du­ties in a very pro­fes­sion­al and eth­i­cal man­ner," he said. He added: "That is not their du­ty, but al­so the hu­man way they were trained." Rosario was speak­ing dur­ing the open­ing of the ori­en­ta­tion pro­gramme for the nurs­es, at Crown Plaza, in Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day. These new nurs­es com­prise the third batch of health work­ers to ar­rive in the coun­try. The first, which com­prised 14 doc­tors, were ori­ent­ed last Au­gust, while the sec­ond–17 doc­tors and 28 nurs­es from Cu­ba and 13 from St Vin­cent–came in Oc­to­ber, 2009.

"I as­sure you that through their work, the Cuban and Trinida­di­an bonds will con­tin­ue to be forged," Rosario said. Min­is­ter of Health Jer­ry Narace not­ed that 35 Cuban doc­tors would be as­signed through­out the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties.

The nurs­es in­clude:

�2 Five in com­mu­ni­ty care

�2 Six in nephrol­o­gy

�2 Four in op­er­at­ing the­atres

�2 Nine in in­ten­sive care

�2 Eight in emer­gency care

�2 Three in neona­tal

Narace said there were ex­cel­lent re­ports about the per­for­mance of the Cubans from both the lo­cal med­ical care providers an users. "Thus far, in 2009 we have re­cruit­ed a to­tal of 128 for­eign care pro­fes­sion­als to serve our pub­lic health care sec­tor."