{"id":346288,"date":"2017-08-22T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=346288"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:50:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:50:41","slug":"ghanaians-among-top-foreigners-boosting-uk-health-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/ghanaians-among-top-foreigners-boosting-uk-health-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians among top foreigners boosting UK health system"},"content":{"rendered":"

2016 figures indicate that there are 2,289 Ghanaian health staff under the United Kingdom\u2019s (UK) National Health Service (NHS).<\/p>\n

Ghana contributes the 15th most human resources to the UK\u2019s NHS and other African countries feature prominently, with Nigeria contributing 5,040, South Africa contributing 1,626 and Egypt contributing 887.<\/p>\n

UK nationals contribute 971,878 persons to NHS staff, which range from cleaners to midwives to doctors.<\/p>\n

These figures will be unsurprising, considering the brain drain migration of health workers from low and middle-income to high-income countries.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0World Health Organisation predicts<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0that the current global shortage of over-7 million health workers will increase to 12.9 million by 2035, with the poorest countries in the suffering the most from these shortages.<\/p>\n

Sierra Leone, known to have one of the weakest health systems in the world, contributes 512 workers to the NHS. In 2010, the country had\u00a0136 doctors and 1,017 nurses<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, translating to one doctor for approximately every 45,000 people.<\/p>\n

In the year 2014, when the UK’s NHS was voted the world’s strongest<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, it had 27 doctors and 103 nurses trained in Sierra Leone working for it.<\/p>\n

Ghana’s deficit<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the Ghanaian context, the usefulness of Ghanaians to the UK’s health sector is highlighted in the\u00a02006 estimation<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0indicating that the money saved by the UK through the recruitment of Ghanaian health workers may have exceeded that which it gave to Ghana in aid for health.<\/p>\n

Ghana, on the other hand, continues to struggle with a deficit of critical health workers. An assessment by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association revealed that Ghana will need not less than 38,000<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Nurses and Midwives to fill the nurses-patient ratio.<\/p>\n

WHO standards peg 40 nurses for every 10,000 patients as an acceptable ration, but Ghana’s is said to be 22 nurses for every 10,000 people.<\/p>\n

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Deficits abound for doctors too, with one doctor attending to about 10, 450 patients – a far cry from\u00a0the one doctor to 5000 patients\u00a0ratio per the recommendations of the Commonwealth and the 1 doctor to 1,320 patients per the recommendations from WHO.<\/p>\n

The role migrants play in the UK health system had led some to advocate for financial compensation for source countries.<\/p>\n

The NHS would be “in dire straits”<\/a><\/strong><\/span> without migrant workers, according to one of the UK’s senior economists.<\/p>\n

The\u00a02010 WHO code of practice<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0on the international recruitment of health personnel attempts to deal with the brain drain but it does not mandate financial compensation for source countries.<\/p>\n

Instead, Member States are urged to discourage active recruitment of health personnel from developing countries facing critical shortages of health workers.<\/p>\n

Acclaim for migrants<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of these migrant health workers have risen to the pinnacle of their profession, including Ghana’s Cecilia Anim, who has received a CBE<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) by the Queen of England as part of the 2017 New Year Honours list.<\/p>\n

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Cecilia Anim is the President of the Royal College of Nurses, a position she has held since 2014. Her election as the Royal College of Nurses President was a landmark moment, as she became its first black president.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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