Doctor And Nurses Exodus Leaves Africa Health Care In Crisis

In Nairobi, Kenya, a very small, very basic house costs 3500 shillings per month (ฃ 25) - almost, health care , three quarters of the nurses salary and capacity of nurses with families to feed. But many do not complain about the poor quality of housing, but the fact that about one quarter of qualified Kenyan nurses have no permanent nursing jobs in a country with a health system in crisis. Those who have found work are often overworked and staff leave en masse, tempted by, health care , better conditions abroad, and they are not replaced. There is a large reservoir of unemployed nurses in most African countries, but suggests that many governments are forced to introduce recruitment freezes due to the conditions of the IMF and World Bank aid packages designed to force African countries to bloated civil service slim. Many healthcare professionals have scrimped, health care , to find, health care , the money to qualify but then struggle to find employment after qualifying. Now, like thousands of others, they are saving to leave for the UK and the U.S.., health care ,, health care , The African government often promises that they will increase spending on health, but many never do. The migration of doctors and nurses, health care , from Africa to rich countries, the fear of an African medical brain drain as disgruntled doctors and nurses increased spread around the world in search of better paid and secure jobs. The Ministry of Health statistics in Zimbabwe, fewer than one in, health care , four posts for doctors is filled. Four out of five of the district, health care , hospitals that serve rural areas have no doctors. But empirical research on the, health care , issue was hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Where are they located? Not only are African governments, the IMF and the World Bank making it difficult for them to find a job, but recently new rules, health care , designed to safeguard, health care , jobs for British trainee nurses have been introduced that could mean thousands of foreign nurses already employed the UK forced to work. Recent studies in the United Kingdom say that as many as 80 percent of nursing graduates are unable to work in the United Kingdom to find the Government has removed nursing from the list of professions, health care , that bypass immigration rules in August 2006. This means that overseas nurses get a job only if no suitable candidates to emerge from Great Britain or Europe. But the change also applies to existing nurses from overseas when they to the end of their contract. Overseas nurses have become the backbone of healthcare in recent years with 45 percent of new nurses registered in Britain coming from abroad.