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Canada has been looking outside its borders to fill a critical nurse shortage, but recruitment efforts are leaving Ghana’s hospitals short-staffed. Now Ghana’s nurse association says Canada should foot the bill for their training.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Pretty shitty move by the provinces to steal a poorer nation's medical staff to fill their shortages.

[–] iamhangry 0 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Sure. Imagine how bad it is being from a poor country and being offered a lot more money, better work and life conditions. Truly awful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I said it was shitty for the provinces to do that versus providing more slots in education and higher wages for current medical staff. Instead they steal staff from poor nations and feel no guilt for doing that ... which is colonialism at its core.

[–] iamhangry 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that’s a fair point. But even with an investment in better wages, training and more education a critical shortage will take at least a couple years to be mitigated, and a couple years doesn’t seem to be a viable option right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's fair.

Then the provinces should have IMMEDIATELY increased enrollment to nursing AND increased wages to help keep that current staff on.

None of the problems created by provincial gov'ts should be solved by stealing nurses from other nations.

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