The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare has revealed that no Ghanaian Muslim woman was trained in Cuba as a gynaecologist over the past six years as being claimed by former president John Mahama.
His statement follows former President’s Mahama speech at the Al Sunna Eid Prayers at the Efua Sutherland Park in Accra, indicating his administration gave scholarship opportunities to females in the Muslim communities to be part of a training in Cuba to serve the Zongo communities.
Dr. Nsiah-Asare stressed former President’s assertions do not support the records at the health service.
“No student was trained in gynaecology from the batch sent to Cuba then as claimed by former President John Mahama. In all, there were 217 General Practitioners and two Physiotherapists in that batch,” Dr. Nsiah-Asare told a section of the media.
He noted “One needs to graduate as a General Practitioner before he or she can even specialise. So it is wrong for the former President to allude that they deliberately sent female students to Cuba to be trained in gynaecology when they had not even been trained as general practitioners”.
Dr. Nsiah-Asare insisted it is the current Akufo-Addo led administration which has sent 30 graduates to specialise in Cuba.