Sickness, burnout and staff departures amid surging Omicron cases have driven absentee rates to levels not yet seen during the two-year pandemic, said Howard Catton, CEO of the Geneva-based group that represents 27 million nurses and 130 national organizations.To plug the gap, Western countries have responded by hiring army personnel as well as volunteers and retirees but many have also stepped up international recruitment as part of a trend that is worsening health inequity, he continued.
"I really fear this 'quick fix solution' – it's a bit similar to what we've been seeing with PPE and vaccines where rich countries have used their economic might to buy and to hoard - if they do that with thep nursing workforce it will just make the inequity even worse." Some of the recent recruits to rich countries have come from sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, and parts of the Caribbean, Catton said, saying that nurses were often motivated by higher salaries and better terms than at home.
"The bottom line is that some people would look at this and say this is rich countries offloading the costs of educating new nurses and health workers," he said.
Agree fully and has been used every time a Health Emergency but we in West steal Doctors regularly and poor countries lose out ! It is Criminal!
These four nurses are dying to step foot into Canada and will work for minimum wage for that opportunity
But not hording vaccines from places like Africa so that we can have essentially pointless boosters and vaccine programs for kids, while their elderly fights for first and second dose. You have no claim to knowledge or information you rott.
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