World Health Organization warns of Dangerous Phenomenon in Poor Countries

The World Health Organization said that the migration of healthcare workers from poorer countries is increasing to rich countries, which in turn seek to compensate for the loss of their staff as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and sometimes do so through active recruitment campaigns.

The organization indicated that the tendency of nurses and other health workers to leave parts of Africa or Southeast Asia for better opportunities in richer countries in the Middle East or Europe was already present before the pandemic, but it has increased since then in light of the intensification of global competition.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director of the World Health Organization, said: “Healthcare workers are the backbone of any health system, and there are 55 countries with some of the most fragile health systems in the world that suffer from a shortage of healthcare personnel, and many of them lose these staff due to emigration to other countries.” ".

Ghebreyesus was referring to a new list issued by the organization of countries most at risk of migration of medical personnel, to which eight new countries have been added since it was last published in 2020.