Poaching health workers from Africa should be deemed a crime

[Defeated Romanticist]

Argue to a group of leading health-care researchers in a medical journal in Canada. They point to the fact that their are more Malawian doctors in Manchester than Malawi. They say that it is the biggest healthcare problem in Africa to-day. With the EU's new visas for highly skilled individuals, the problem may continue for the for-seeable future. One of the key reasons for the constant shortage of medical professionals in the West. This is almost an entirly artificial shortage. Groups such as the American medical association and their international equivilants artificially restrict the numbers training as medical professionals, which helps them justify large fees.

The mass brain-drain of the third-world has been an impediment on economic development for decades. It is now clear that it is putting lives at risk. Should we now, as a humanitarian measure, place restrictions on the migration of medical professionals from the third world?

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doctor shortage

[cactus flower]

Argue to a group of leading health-care researchers in a medical journal in Canada. They point to the fact that their are more Malawian doctors in Manchester than Malawi. They say that it is the biggest healthcare problem in Africa to-day. With the EU's new visas for highly skilled individuals, the problem may continue for the for-seeable future. One of the key reasons for the constant shortage of medical professionals in the West. This is almost an entirly artificial shortage. Groups such as the American medical association and their international equivilants artificially restrict the numbers training as medical professionals, which helps them justify large fees.

The mass brain-drain of the third-world has been an impediment on economic development for decades. It is now clear that it is putting lives at risk. Should we now, as a humanitarian measure, place restrictions on the migration of medical professionals from the third world?

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doctor shortage

I agree, it is shocking, and Irish doctors go en masse to Canada and the US, who presumably don't have to train anyone at all. We should have to pay the training costs back to the country of origin if we take in doctors from other states.

[CookieMonster]

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Argue to a group of leading health-care researchers in a medical journal in Canada. They point to the fact that their are more Malawian doctors in Manchester than Malawi. They say that it is the biggest healthcare problem in Africa to-day. With the EU's new visas for highly skilled individuals, the problem may continue for the for-seeable future. One of the key reasons for the constant shortage of medical professionals in the West. This is almost an entirly artificial shortage. Groups such as the American medical association and their international equivilants artificially restrict the numbers training as medical professionals, which helps them justify large fees.

The mass brain-drain of the third-world has been an impediment on economic development for decades. It is now clear that it is putting lives at risk. Should we now, as a humanitarian measure, place restrictions on the migration of medical professionals from the third world?

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doctor shortage

I agree, it is shocking, and Irish doctors go en masse to Canada and the US, who presumably don't have to train anyone at all. We should have to pay the training costs back to the country of origin if we take in doctors from other states.[/quote:29xjtzvq]

Does this apply to all professionals who's education is pay for by the state?

[Thac0man]

As long as the health workers are killed humanly and in sustainable numbers I don't see a problem with some poaching.

But seriously. I can't see how we can make someone having a qualification, that should give them more freedom, a crime.

[Defeated Romanticist]

As long as the health workers are killed humanly and in sustainable numbers I don't see a problem with some poaching.

But seriously. I can't see how we can make someone having a qualification, that should give them more freedom, a crime.

I think they are talking about western countries going to third world countries and actively recruiting rather than third world doctors who seek out employment in the west.

[Mazzy Maz]

The root problem here, in my opinion and as alluded to by DR in the original post, is the lack of available doctor training positions in countries like our own.

Its ironic that Harney won't apply her penchant for neoliberal policy in the one place where it might actually be of benefit i.e. in liberalising medical training.