# \[e-drug\] Brain drain of pharmacists (cont'd) **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [October 23, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-brain-drain-of-pharmacists-contd/18007 "2003-10-23T12:07:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BONFACE\_FUNDAFUNDA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BONFACE\_FUNDAFUNDA](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/BONFACE_FUNDAFUNDA)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-brain-drain-of-pharmacists-contd/18007/1 "2003-10-23T12:07:01Z")
E-drug: Brain drain of pharmacists (cont'd) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear all, Of course, this is a complex situation. On one hand we have free movement of labour, which is key to globalization, and I'm glad professionals in the developing world are participating in this movement (much more stringent process, etc). In respect to this issue, we have seen in recent past a deliberate mass-recruitment of professionals (pharmacists, doctors, nurses, teachers, etc), based in developing countries, or low- income states, into mainly western Europe and north America. This is not normal international recruitment of staff as we know it. What we know is that it is a means to fill posts in developed countries that are not attracting local professionals or are being seriously vacated, due to poor employment terms, poor working conditions, etc. How many teachers in the UK have left the profession due to poor conditions? Talking of teachers, only, how many of these have been recruited from Australia, South Africa, Jamaica, etc, to try and fill these posts and stem that braindrain? I gather that it is left up to an individual to make the necessary approach to a recruiting agency, or professional body, in response to this particular call for employment. But as some have noted, where some developed countries permit to recruit this labour force from developing countries in such numbers as to affect personnel needs in developing countries, then surely that is wrong. But why has this mass recruitment drive been possible? Are there bilateral agreements between countries for such massive recruitments, or not? If there are, what are the terms, and who agreed to them? Is it professional bodies and companies in developed countries that have been given the right to make this drive for staff, as part of the globalization concept? The interesting development in this situation for developed countries is that their labour issues end up not being addressed sufficiently well, as to attract local personnel. In the long- term, both developed and developing countries are likely to suffer from this chronic braindrain. Regards, Bonnie Bonface Fundafunda PhD, MBA, B.Pharm(Hon) 21 Beverstone Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 7LL England e-mail: bcfunda@hotmail.com -- To send a message to E-Drug, write to: e-drug@healthnet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@healthnet.org in the body of the message type: subscribe e-drug OR unsubscribe e-drug To contact a person, send a message to: e-drug-help@healthnet.org Information and archives: [http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug](http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug)