number of doctors and/or dentists. The doctors and dentists elect one doctor and one dentist to represent them on the council. The offices of the Seychelles Medical and Dental Council are currently located in the Red Roof Building of Seychelles Hospital, just opposite the Accident and Emergency Unit. The council's office is manned by a registrar or assistant registrar. The medical and dental professions in Seychelles Seychelles is renowned for its 100% primary health care coverage and for its high turnover of doctors and dentists. Of the roughly 150 doctors and dentists actively practicing in Seychelles, either in government health facilities or private facilities, about 60% are foreign-born. Non-naturalized foreign-born doctors spend an average of two years in Seychelles before they are repatriated to their countries of origin. Most foreign doctors currently come from Cuba, India, China, Sri Lanka (for government health facilities) and Germany for Silhouette Island where there is a special arrangement with a medical company, the hotel on that island and the company managing that island, to provide doctors to the island. A large number of these doctors have been registered by the Seychelles Medical and Dental Council. Training of doctors and dentists Seychelles now has a new university, called the University of Seychelles. However, that university does not have a medical school. Seychellois doctors and dentists continue to be trained overseas in almost every corner of the World. Over the past thirty years, local doctors and dentists in Seychelles have been trained in United Kingdom, France, Germany, Greece, Cuba, Russia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Malaysia, India and other countries. See also Seychelles Medical and Dental Association References External links http://www.seylii.org/sc/legislation/consolidated-act/126 http://article.wn.com/view/2013/11/25/New_Chairman_of_Seychelles_Medical_and_Dental_Council_Electe/) https://smdcboard.wordpress.com http://www.seychelles.net/seynat/archives/40201202.html http://www.nation.sc/article.html?task=pdf&id=239917 Medical and health organisations based in the Seychelles