The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised concerns about the international recruitment of health workers from 55 countries, including 37 African nations such as Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Senegal. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted healthcare systems worldwide, resulting in a desperate search for new personnel in many developed countries, often beyond their own continents.
Medics are typically faced with work-related threats, downing tools to seek better remunerations abroad. In some instances, to stem medicalbrain drain, retroactive laws are being considered to hold medics of African origin back home.
Host Keminni Amanor is joined by Public Relations Officer, Nigerian Infectious Diseases Society, Adefolarin Opawoye and James Sibanda who is Deputy Team Leader, Zimbabwe Health Workers Apex Team, Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital to unpack issues around the medical brain drain phenomenon. Watch:
