PHM-Exch> Lancet article: Loss of health workers to international organisations

[Claudio Schuftan]

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> *From: *"davids" <davids at doctors.org.uk>
> *crossposted from*<CHILD2015 at dgroups.org>
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>  I thought the group might be interested in our Comment published yesterday
> in The Lancet.
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> Here is the URL and below the text version of the article. [*]
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> http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2961157-9/fulltext
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> Dr David Southall MD, FRCPCH, OBE Hon.Medical Director
> MCAI (Maternal and Childhealth Advocacy International)
> Conway Chambers, 83 Derby Road, Nottingham NG1 5BB
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> Tel: +44 (0)115 9506662 Mobile +44(0)7710 674003
> Fax: +44 (0)115 9507733
> Website: www.mcai.org.uk Email: director at mcai.org.uk
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> CHILD2015 profile: David Southall is a retired Professor of Paediatrics and
> Honorary Director of Maternal and Childhealth Advocacy International (MCAI)
> www.caiuk.org He is also on the board of the International Child Health
> Group www.ichg.org.uk email: director AT mcai.uk.org
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> [*Note from CHILD2015 moderator:
> Due to copyright restrictions we are not allowed to reproduce the whole
> article here, but we are allowed to reproduce the introduction, below. The
> full text of the article is available free of charge at the URL above,
> thanks to The Lancet's policy of free access to all global health articles.
> Thanks, Neil PW]
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> The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9740, Pages 498 - 499, 14 August 2010
> doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61157-9
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> Health workers lost to international bodies in poor countries
> David Southall, Mamady Cham, Omar Sey
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> 'Guidelines to help keep health workers in remote and rural areas,
> especially in poor countries, have just been issued by WHO. Other relevant
> issues relating to human resources in situations of poverty have been
> previously highlighted. Re-distribution of staff from the public (national)
> health service (NHS) to other countries, to the private sector (accessible
> by only a few patients), and away from remote or rural areas are additive
> and affect people who are the poorest the most.
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> 'We draw attention to a further drain on the meagre numbers of doctors and
> nurses in most disadvantaged countries. Some international organisations,
> research institutions, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) engaged in
> aiming to promote health and relieve suffering might, in one aspect of their
> approach, be having the opposite effect. We refer to their employment of
> locally trained health workers (often the most able) in countries where
> there is a shortage of NHS staff, the only source of health provision for
> poor people there. By offering better salaries and working conditions, such
> international organisations prevent government-trained doctors and nurses
> from contributing to their NHS. In an under-staffed NHS, this situation not
> only deprives patients but also demoralises the remaining staff as they
> carry an increased and often dangerous workload...'
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> Click here <http://dgroups.org/?pa48dbfw> to read online.
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