A Ghanaian medical student identified as Erasmus Klutse has died in Cuba following the terrible conditions and health treatments he received in the country.
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Because of this, Ghanaian medical students in Cuba are pleading with their government to help them, claiming that they are living in deplorable circumstances on the Caribbean island.
The majority of the students state the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and the Ghana Scholarships Secretariat have stopped sending their stipends for five and eight months, respectively.
Speaking with Class FM on Monday 10th May 2021, Eugene Oko Richman who happens to be a member of the 10-member NUGS executive committee in Cuba said that Erasmus’s death was a result of the Cuban government failing to send an ambulance during his medical emergency.
“Just this last Friday, we lost a student of ours, a brother, Erasmus Klutse and one of the reasons why we lost him was because of the poor health treatment that we’ve been receiving,” he said.
“And the issue that we have is that the mission here has made it very easy for the Cubans not to make us a priority when it comes to our health because if they had sent an ambulance to him, we feel that his death could have been prevented.“
“So, that’s the reason why we are agitated and we are calling that there should be measures put in place so that a thing like this could be prevented,” he added.
