15/06/2025
Even in advanced countries like UK and USA, nurses are not paid very well and citizens in the profession complain a lot. They don’t just complain, it is said that healthcare professionals in these countries quit working in the healthcare sector to find jobs in other fields of work.
I can say, all over the world, on average, healthcare providers are not properly rewarded and leaders in these developed countries recognize its consequential effects. So, they put in place measures to mitigate negative impacts on their healthcare system.
The measure is not about raising the wages of healthcare providers to retain them, rather, how to attract skilful and experienced care-providers from other poor countries to fill the gap.
They put in place this sort of ‘Plan B’ because they see dissatisfied, trapped, well-trained healthcare providers in other countries; especially in some parts of Asia and Africa. They (nurses) do not have the option of leaving for other better-paying jobs.
Owing to this, programmes to attract foreign healthcare providers proved to be very effective. How is it so? A nurse in UK earns, let say 4000 pounds a month and one in Ghana earns 3000 Ghana cedis. To the UK nurse, 5000 pounds is inadequate and 3000 Ghana cedis is woefully inadequate for the Ghanaian nurse.
However, if the Ghanaian nurse relocates and earns 3000 pounds, he/she has more advantages over a UK citizen earning 5000 pounds. The Ghanaian nurse now has the benefit of converting pound currency into Ghana cedi and that makes a huge difference.
Today, June 2025, just 3000 pounds amounts to over 41,000 Ghana cedis. How then do you compare, let’s......
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