Georgetown, Guyana – September 10, 2025 – After Opposition party We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) recently highlighted, what it called “the exclusion of Regions Seven and Ten from the Ministry of Health’s Rehabilitation Training Programme”, the Ministry of Health has been forced to backtrack and revise its advertisement to include all ten regions. The swift U-turn followed public outcry led by WIN’s leader, Azruddin Mohamed, who accused the administration of sidelining regions that overwhelmingly supported his party.
“The people of Regions 7 and 10 deserve equal opportunities as are afforded to citizens in all other regions in Guyana,” Mohamed said in a statement. “To exclude these two regions that overwhelmingly support WIN is telling. Why were they left out? Is this what inclusivity will look like for another five years under the ‘One Guyana’ umbrella?”
He insisted the omission was not a mere oversight but a revealing act of neglect. “Whatever the justification, this glaring exclusion reveals the true nature and attitude of those in authority,” Mohamed argued, demanding immediate action to correct the policy.
The Ministry’s reversal has been welcomed as a victory for residents of Linden and the interior communities of Region Seven, where access to training programmes is often scarce and life-changing. Rehabilitation training is viewed as particularly critical in these areas, which face chronic shortages of skilled healthcare workers.
Still, Mohamed warned that the fight for fairness is not over. “We will not sit back quietly and watch Regions 7 and 10 be treated as an afterthought. Guyanese remain watchful,” he declared.
For many, the dilemma has left many raising questions about whether inclusivity is genuine or simply rhetoric. In the end, WIN’s intervention forced a correction, but the controversy has left behind deeper doubts about the politics of equal opportunity.
