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As the Cuban med­ical pro­gramme ap­pears to be un­rav­el­ling across the re­gion, there has been no of­fi­cial re­sponse from the Min­istry of Health on the is­sue.

This month, both Ja­maica and Guyana for­mal­ly ter­mi­nat­ed their long­stand­ing med­ical mis­sions with Cu­ba, cit­ing pres­sure from the Unit­ed States. How­ev­er, Health Min­is­ter Lack­ram Bo­doe has yet to con­firm whether Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pro­gramme will con­tin­ue or be dis­con­tin­ued.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that in the lead-up to the April 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, there were ap­prox­i­mate­ly 90 Cuban doc­tors and 176 Cuban nurs­es op­er­at­ing lo­cal­ly. At present, those fig­ures are un­known, as Bo­doe has not re­spond­ed de­spite mul­ti­ple at­tempts to con­tact him over the past two weeks.