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A six-year long Community Medical Doctors Programme was yesterday lauched by President Yahya Jammeh at the State House grounds in Banjul, where he emphatically warned against brain drain, which has been depriving the country of its cream, particularly in the public service.
The programme was conceived by President Jammeh in consultation with President Fidel Castro of Cuba, where the programme was invented. To this effect, a team of Cuban medical doctors and professors will train young Gambian students recruited from various communities, where they will operate after successfully completing the six-year programme, which is the first of its kind in Africa.
As a show of his devotion to achieving quality health care for Gambians, the President personally procured 44 brand new and state-of-the-art Dell computers, besides shouldering the capital cost for the take-off and success of the programme - divided into a cycle of 12 semesters. It was designed to deepen students’ knowledge and facilitate research in subject areas, thereby addressing the human resource contraints in the health care service delivery system of the country.
Launching the programme, President Jammeh said the iniative will help to realise the goals of Vision 2020 earlier than expected. He told the students that the success and failure of the programme depends on them. He informed the students that anyone who cannot stay up to the completion of the programme must leave, noting that students who wish to quit the programme half way ahead would not be accepted, as this would derail the objective. He disclosed that it costs at least £13,000 to train personnel in similar programmes in the UK.
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