Brain drain: when doctors go abroad
How to encourage doctors to practice in their countries of origin?
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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Tunisia is currently losing between 700 and 800 doctors a year, who decide to go and work abroad.
While the country has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, this exodus of doctors weighed heavily in the health crisis this summer, while the health system was overwhelmed.
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This problem is observed in other countries for security and / or economic reasons.
Lebanon, Syria, Haiti, Guinea, Madagascar… How to encourage doctors to practice in their countries of origin?
What consequences does this brain drain have for the quality of care in the countries concerned?
Dr Salem Ould Zein,
president of
the National Union of practitioners with diplomas outside the European Union (SNPadhue
), resuscitator at
the General Hospital of Châlons-en-Champagne.
Prof. Mohamed Cissé,
head of the STD Dermatology department of the Donka University Hospital in Guinea.
Vice-President of SODAF, the French-speaking African dermatology society
.
Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Techniques in Conakry, Guinea.
Dr Asmaou Diallo,
intern in the neuro-sensory functional explorations department at the Gonesse hospital center in Val-d'Oise, in the Paris region.
Dr Myriam Fatmi,
general practitioner and sex therapist in Tunis, Tunisia.
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