{"id":442885,"date":"2011-06-17T08:03:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T08:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/17\/outcry-for-cuban-doctor-to-return\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T08:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T08:03:14","slug":"outcry-for-cuban-doctor-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/17\/outcry-for-cuban-doctor-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Outcry for Cuban Doctor to Return"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Catherine Sasman<\/p>\n

17 June 2011<\/p>\n

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IN a rare show of appreciation, former Namibian patients of Cuban Dr Luis Verges, who has returned to his country, want government negotiations to get him back. The 60-year-old Verges, who is a specialist in internal medicine with over 40 years’ experience, worked at the Katutura State Hospital for two years.<\/p>\n

Anecdotal accounts are that Verges would consult about 1 000 patients in 20 days. His motto, said a former patient, is that no one should leave his office still sick.<\/p>\n

Tributes and calls for his return streamed in after his departure about a week ago.<\/p>\n

“He is a god-gifted person. He has the arms of Jesus,” is how one of his former patients described him.<\/p>\n

Another claimed that an elderly woman confined to a wheelchair for 10 years due to arthritis can now walk.<\/p>\n

Maria Greyton, another of his former patients, wrote: “Dr Verges did such a wonderful job with my arthritis treatment and now that I need follow-up consultations, he is not there anymore.”<\/p>\n

Another wrote a letter to the Katutura State Hospital in which she hailed Verges as instrumental in saving her son’s life.<\/p>\n

“My son almost died and had begun passing blood in his urine! Dr Verges, over a period of two weeks, fought for my son’s life and I will forever be grateful to him,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

The woman, who was a patient of Verges herself, said she suffered from arthritis in the knees. In 2008 it was recommended that she should get knee replacements on both knees.<\/p>\n

“Firstly I could not afford the surgery and secondly I felt this was not the only way. I have been receiving treatment from Dr Verges and I am glad to report that I am doing very well and walk unaided,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It is so seldom in the history of Katutura hospital that patients come to love a doctor as much as Dr Verges for his willingness, sympathy, competency, efficiency, and very good relationship with each and every one, whether it was a patient or medical staff,” wrote Desery Freygang.<\/p>\n

She said a cousin has received treatment for tuberculosis from various doctors over a period of four months before Verges diagnosed her with cancer after thorough testing.<\/p>\n

“After receiving his treatment within one week she was out of the wheelchair,” said Freygang.<\/p>\n

“I do not see why his return would be impossible,” responded the second counsellor at the Cuban embassy, Antonio Publillones.<\/p>\n

Publillones, however, said it could take some time for Verges to get another foreign posting, since other doctors have to be given an opportunity to serve outside of Cuba.<\/p>\n

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