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North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) chair­man, Dr Tim Gopeesingh, has con­firmed that while no Cuban nurs­es are em­ployed by the au­thor­i­ty, two Cuban doc­tors are cur­rent­ly pro­vid­ing ser­vices.

Dr Gopeesingh was re­spond­ing to ques­tions dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing at the UNC’s head­quar­ters yes­ter­day.

Last year, there was re­gion­al at­ten­tion on the Cuban Med­ical Co­op­er­a­tion Pro­gramme, fol­low­ing a diplo­mat­ic stand-off be­tween the Unit­ed States and Cari­com, in­clud­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go.