Cuban volunteers hold Scientific Day |13 December 2013

The Cuban Scientific Day has now become an annual event, since Cuban volunteers working in Seychelles decided to dedicate a day of the year to scientific discussions and exchange of ideas and experiences in their areas of intervention.

As the grand majority of Seychelles-based Cubans are doctors – 38 out of a total of 40 Cuban expatriates – it is not surprising that the Scientific Day has generally been dominated by medical lectures and debates.

This was not an exception last Saturday as the group of doctors who have called themselves the Cuban Medical Brigade, met at their country’s embassy at Bel Eau for this year’s Scientific Day in the presence of Cuban chargé d’affaires, Orlando Alvarez.

The Minister for Health Mitcy Larue and Seychellois doctors Erna Athanasius and Anne Gédeon also attended part of the presentations.

The topics presented and debated included female genital problems, diabetes, kidney tumours, use of catheters, severe wound treatment, bowel perforations, and chronic renal failure.

According to chargé d’affaires Alvarez, the working session is useful for the doctors as it serves as a form of training.

He said it is important for doctors to interact, know the difficulties that others face and support the work of each other. In this way they can makegood medical assessment and deliver appropriate care.