E-drug: Brain-drain of health professionals (cont)
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Dear Avisha,
If you are not already aware of this, you and other e-druggers may find this
useful relating to the above subject:
At the pre World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting in Geneva, May 2001,
Commonwealth Health ministers discussed the issues pertaining to
international recruitment of health workers. They concluded that
since all Commonwealth countries, both developed and developing, were
losing skilled health personnel, particularly doctors and nurses.
The Commonwealth should agree on a unified approach to deal with the
problem. I believe they are currently trying to develop a
Commonwealth Code of Practice on International Recruitment for
discussion at the 13th Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting
(13CHMM). The Secretariat sought guidance from the International
Labour Organisation (ILO), UNISON, the representative trade union
body for public sector workers in the UK, and the UK Department of
Health. A consultative meeting was held in London, 13-14 September
2001 with representatives of these organisations and of Jamaica,
Ghana and Nigeria. The meeting discussed the issue in depth and
produced a draft code, which was submitted to Ministers at their
Meeting in New Zealand (13CHMM).
You should be able to get more information from the under mentioned:
Florence Bj�lkander
Technical Support Group
Marlborough House, Pall Mall
London SW1Y 5HX
Tel & Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7747 6543
E-mail: f.bjalkander@commonwealth.int
Good luck in your work.
Murtada M Sesay
Immediate Past President
Commonwealth Pharmacuetical Association
e:mail msesay@unicef.org
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