Slovak Republic to offer more specialised training for Seychellois doctors |06 October 2016

The newly accredited ambassador of the Slovak Republic, Frantisek Dlhopolcek, has announced that his country is to offer more specialised training in medicine and will continue to contribute for more Seychellois students to study medicine there.

Ambassador Dlhopolcek made this announcement while paying a courtesy call recently on Health Minister Mitcy Larue at the Ministry of Health today.

In her welcoming remarks, Minister Larue said both the Seychelles government and the Ministry of Health was looking forward to continuing the excellent relations laid on the foundation of excellent bilateral co-operation by his predecessors.

“Seychelles has greatly valued the long-standing friendship and partnership that exists between both our countries. Our state of bilateral relations are excellent and we need to continue to strengthen it,” Minister Larue said.                  

Ambassador Dlhopolcek reiterated his country’s support to continue to contribute for more Seychellois students to come and study medicine and to provide short-term and long-term courses for Seychellois doctors to specialise in different types of advanced medicine training in the Slovak Republic.

During a past working visit made to several health and medical training universities in the Slovak Republic by Dr Henry Telemaque, the CIC for Oncology and Surgery at the Seychelles Hospital, he reported that the country has the potential to offer good learning experiences in medicine to our Seychellois students.

There are currently 11 Seychellois students on a full Seychelles government scholarship who are pursuing a six-year degree course in Medicine at the Comenius University in Bratislava.

The students are Sarah Allisop, Vivianne Camille, Stephanie Mangroo, Roddy Micock, Colin Telemaque, Laxshmi Rekha Vidot, Farida Sinon, Anielle Esapron, Amelie Mein, Eilish Charlette and Anan Barbe.

In the past, a number of Seychellois students studied in the Slovak Republic in fields such as dentistry and laboratory technology.

It is to note that Dr Patrick Herminie, a Seychellois medical professional and the former Speaker of the National Assembly, studied medicine in the Slovak Republic.

Besides Dr Herminie, other Seychellois doctors who have studied before and after the partition of Czechoslovakia which either became Czech Republic or Slovak Republic, are :
Dr  Daniella Malulu (mental health care), Dr Michael  Etienne (dentistry), Miss Lucile de Commarmond (pharmacy), Dr Roland Barbe (opthamology), Dr Meggy Louange (public health) and Dr Mickey Noel (anaesthetist).

Also present at the meeting between Ambassador Dlhopolcek and Minister Larue were the health principal secretary Dr Bernard Valentin and Ambassador Maurice Loustau-Lalanne, the chairman of the Health Care Agency Board.