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A timely reminder about a growing problem. The emphasis should be on how to encourage trained professionals to remain in their own country and to provide the highest possible standard of care to the greatest number of their own community. Some developed countries “poach” unashamedly and turn a blind eye to the damage caused by their recruitment agencies.

The globalization of health care has presented an array of health challenges worldwide. There are currently 2.4 million too few physicians, nurses, and midwives to provide medical intervention according to the World Health Organization. The encouraging of a medical professional to remain in their own country to assist in improving health standard will be a challenge within itself, cost billions in potential revenues for other countries, and all-in-all may not be the best financial decision for that physician.

In most cases, South Africa, Western South America, India, Pakistan, and respective small coastal islands illustrate the most critical shortages. Its document that may of the countries with critical shortages tend to limit investments, reduce funding, poor working conditions, and an increase death rate of their health care professionals.

The solution to the topic of discussion is to simply develop the same medical standards worldwide for all countries. The degree of diversity between medical programs abroad as opposed to U.S. standards increases the number of qualified physician and nurses that can work within a particular country–U.S. for example. There should be defined systems that enable other countries to understand who has the greatest health care challenge and work as an alliance to manage those countries needs within a specified time frame.

Lastly, there are arrays of recruitment agencies that assist in migrating medical professionals from one country to another, which has been great as a contribution for fulfilling countries medical needs. However, many of these companies add to the downside of health care by migrating medical profession from one area, but sending to encouraging other countries with needs. This in turns cause an epidemic among medical professionals to focus on money, education, and not the primary challenges facing global health care.

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