WHO Pledges to Help Zimbabwe Beat Health Brain Drain HeraldZimbabwe: Zimbabwe
WHO director-general Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus revealed the plan after meeting Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga on the sidelines of the 5th edition of the Global Ministerial Summit held here last week.
Zimbabwe, despite training more than enough for its hospitals, has been paying a heavy price for the high-quality health sector professionals it produces as high-income nations continue to lure these professionals to the detriment of the local health sector. Independent observers have pointed to this as the single biggest threat to Zimbabwe achieving universal health coverage through which President Mnangagwa's Government is configuring the health sector to guarantee sufficient health access and of high quality for all consistent with the demands of an upper middle-income economy.
Government has stated that it has no qualms with its professionals going to work in other jurisdictions but wants this to be institutionalised and coordinated on a government-to-government level. It is against this background that Government has now taken the matter up with the United Nations health promotion agency which is now working on a model to ensure that the"poaching" countries are ethical in their recruitment of local professionals so that the supplier does not suffer adverse effects."One of the problems we discussed is workforce.
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