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African Docs: NHS Importing Migrant Medics Hurts Poor Countries
21 Jan 2021
African doctors have lambasted Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) for its habit of plundering poor countries for medical professionals instead of focusing on training local talent, in defiance of establishment dogma that the state healthcare provider’s “diversity” is both necessary and something to be celebrated.
“The UK already has one of the highest proportions and overall numbers of overseas-qualified doctors in its workforce, yet continues to actively encourage and support overseas health workers to relocate,” wrote Johannes Fagan, Professor and Chairman of the Division of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town, and Dr Mahmood Bhutta, Consultant and Honorary Clinical Professor at the Department of ENT Surgery at Royal Sussex County Hospital, in the