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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo from Ghana\u2019s Nurses and Midwives Association said her country\u2019s healthcare system needed more help.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at the numbers, then it is not ethical for the UK to recruit from Ghana because the numbers of professional nurses compared to trainee or auxiliary nurses is a problem for us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But she added that it was not possible to stop nurses from leaving as migration was a right and that the Ghanaian government needed to do more to persuade them to stay. The health ministry in the capital, Accra, declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Ghana is on the World Health Organization\u2019s list of 55 vulnerable countries, which have low numbers of nurses per head of population. The list \u2013 dubbed by some as the \u201cred list\u201d \u2013 is designed to discourage systematic recruitment in these countries.<\/p>\n

The UK government recently gave \u00a315m ($18.6m) to Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya to help boost their healthcare workforces.<\/p>\n

But the country is known to be looking at brokering a formal deal with Ghana whereby it might be able to recruit more proactively in return for giving the government there a sum of money per nurse.<\/p>\n

It already has a similar agreement with Nepal.<\/p>\n

But the ICN\u2019s Mr Catton questioned whether it was enough.<\/p>\n

He told the BBC that he believed such deals were \u201ctrying to create a veneer of ethical respectability rather than a proper reflection of the true costs to the countries which are losing their nurses\u201d.<\/p>\n

The WHO\u2019s Director of Health Workforce, Jim Campbell, explained to the BBC that Brexit had been a factor in the UK turning to African countries for nurses to fill NHS vacancies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe labour market is extremely competitive around the world and, having closed off the potential labour market from European freedom of movement, what we\u2019re seeing is the consequences of that in terms of attracting people from the Commonwealth and other jurisdictions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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