The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has raised alarms over the possible effects of predatory recruitment practices by high-income countries for nurses in Ghana and other African nations.
CEO of ICN, Howard Catton, in an address with the media, highlighted the severe consequences of this trend.
According to him, there has been a marked increase in the recruitment of nurses by countries that need to train more of their own. "Ghana and a number of other African countries have been the target for recruitment.
But the issue is that Ghana and some of these other countries already have fewer nurses per head of population than the countries who are doing the recruiting, have weaker healthcare systems, have high healthcare demand, and are in a poor position to lose their nurses.
