Chinese doctors in Guyana boosting healthcare delivery

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Dear Editor,
Our health sector received a good top-up, as some 19 experts in a number of areas have come from China for a two-year tenure. The Chinese medical education system engenders great confidence. It closely follows the British one, but with a reduced length from six years to five years, in terms of the educational cycle.
Modern medical education in China goes back to the early 20th century. The country’s medical schools offer four or five-year undergraduate programmes, as well as special two or three-year programmes.
Also to control the medical education standard, the Chinese Ministry of Education functions in tandem with a quality control regulation team. So these 11 specialists are coming with a very solid reputation.
These doctors are expected to make a big impact in our medical sector then. They have the requisite training and possess important skills that are quite scarce in Guyana.
Let us take acupuncture for example. According to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report on the efficacy of acupuncture, studies have shown that acupuncture is effective in inducing analgesia, protecting the body against infections and regulating various physiological functions. It is found that although acupuncture is most often used as a measure to allay symptoms such as pain, it can alter the pathogenesis of the disease to provide relief from the disease as well.
Guyanese have every reason to be upbeat with these doctors.
Yours sincerely,
Monique Rogers

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