According to the United Nations agency, African countries have been hardest hit by this phenomenon, with 37 countries on the continent face a shortage of health workers that thing threaten their chances Achieving universal health care by 2030 – a key Sustainable development goals promise.
Actions of the rich countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) be under supervision inside WHO warning, among other areas.
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“In Africa, a very vibrant economy is creating new opportunities,” said Dr Jim Campbell, director of health worker policy at WHO.
“Gulf countries have traditionally dependent on international personnel and then some OECD high-income countries have really speed up their recruitment and recruitment in response to the pandemic and to deal with the loss of life, infection, absence of workers during the pandemic”.
To help countries protect their vulnerable health care systems, WHO has released an update health workforce support and protection listhighlight countries with low numbers of qualified healthcare workers.
“Countries Priority support request to develop the health workforce and strengthen the health system, along with additional safeguards limit active international recruitment,” emphasized WHO.
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A 5-month-old baby is vaccinated at a camp for displaced people in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Tedros . call
Support the call for universal health care for all countries, aligned with the goal Sustainable development goalsWHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged all countries to “be respect the rules on the WHO list to support and protect the health workforce”.
Health workers “are the backbone of every health system, but the 55 countries with the weakest health systems in the world do not have enough and many people are losing their healthcare workers to international migration,” Tedros added.
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Although many countries respect existing WHO guidelines for the recruitment of health workers, the principle is not acceptable wholesale, the WHO warned.
“What we are seeing is the majority of countries are respecting those regulations (by) not actively recruiting from these (vulnerable) countries,” said WHO’s Dr Campbell. “But there is also a own recruitment market that really exists and we are expecting them to also meet some of the predictable global standards in terms of their practices and behaviour.”
Mechanisms also exist for governments or other individuals to notify WHO if they are “worried” about the behavior of recruiters, the WHO official added.
The The WHO Health Workforce Support and Protection List does not prohibit international recruitmentbut the recommendation that governments participate in such programs is Notice of impact on health systems in countries where they provide qualified health professionals.
