PHA-Exch> Luring Doctors and Nurses 'A Crime'

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: "Marcy Bloom" marcybloom at comcast.net
  GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL: Luring Doctors and Nurses 'A Crime'



The article, "Luring Doctors and Nurses 'A Crime'", can be viewed at
http://www.globalhealth.org/news/article/9652

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Feb. 22, 2008



Rich countries are poaching so many African health workers that the practice
should be viewed as a crime, a team of international disease experts say in
the British medical journal The Lancet. More than 13,000 doctors trained in
sub-Saharan Africa are now practicing in Britain, the United States, Canada
and Australia, leaving behind colleagues with impossible caseloads. African
nurses and pharmacists are also sought after by clinics and drug store
chains offering better pay and legal assistance with immigration, said the
experts, who include the heads of several pharmacy and medicine schools in
Africa. "The resulting dilapidation of health infrastructure contributes to
a measurable and foreseeable public health crisis," the article said. "The
practice should therefore be viewed as an international crime."



Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company



For full article, visit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/world/africa/22briefs-LURINGDOCTOR_BRF.htm
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