By Chip Le Grand October 9, 2021 https://www.smh.com.au/national/pla...-into-fortress-australia-20211008-p58yf0.html Australia will allow 2000 overseas nurses and doctors to enter the country for work under a plan being finalised by the Commonwealth and states to ease a healthcare staffing crisis. With Melbourne and Sydney’s hospital beds jammed with COVID-19 patients and the health systems of other states also under strain, the reinforcements will be flown in over the next six months and predominantly dispatched to outer suburban and regional hospitals and GP clinics.........
The way clinically trained people from the rest of the world are sponged up by more advanced countries is a coming scandal. This will be a far more urgent and acute health crisis for the under-developed world than covid or climate change.
It's a fact of life for generations, the more money the more clout, always been like that, always will remain that way. One reasons I chose trading, because it offers a chance to climb the ladder by one's self. To survive, money is key.
This has been occurring at least since the 1970s when to a small degree when I was a little kid...my Mom had a cousin studying to be a Doctor in France that did her internship abroad in Australia. As I got older, I would learn that the United States, Canada, France, and maybe other countries allowed medical students, nurses to do a 1 year school term internships in other countries...primarily in poor regions of countries that were understaffed. wrbtrader
It was widely reported last year here in the UK that there were more Sierra Leonean doctors practicing in Manchester, England, than in the whole of Sierra Leone. Such stories crop up regularly. Happily we no longer plunder the rain forests for timber or elephant herds for ivory, but I wonder how much longer can we continue to draw African medical resources away from where it is critically needed.
Double edged sword isn't it, many of these people jump at a chance for an overseas post, more money, better conditions, climate and training, new country which suits them politically.