Ghana Patients In Danger As Nurses Migrated To The UK
The recruitment of nurses by high-income countries from poorer nations is “out of control”,
according to the head of one of the world’s biggest nursing groups.
The comments come as the BBC finds evidence of how Ghana’s health system is struggling due to the “brain-drain”.
Many nurse specialist have left the west African country for better paid jobs overseas.
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In 2022 more than 1,200 Ghanaian nurses joined the UK’s nursing register.
Ghana is on the world health organization’s list of 55 vulnerable countries, which have low numbers of nurses per head of population.
The list – dubbed by some as the “red list” – is designed to discourage systematic recruitment in these countries.
But the UKÂ is known to be looking at brokering a formal deal with Ghana whereby it might be able to recruit more proactively in return for giving the government there a sum of money per nurse.
