Ghana should export its nurses to earn foreign income

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• Emmanuel Bombande 10 years ago

  kudos to you Jack.

  kudos to you Jack.

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• Akonta besi fom 10 years ago

  Laudable as the idea is,there is only one hitch:POOR HUMAN RELATIONS. With ascerbic tongues and generally poor human relations training,it is doubtful if 99 percent of Ghanaian nurses,especially the females,would be acceptabl ...
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  Laudable as the idea is,there is only one hitch:POOR HUMAN RELATIONS. With ascerbic tongues and generally poor human relations training,it is doubtful if 99 percent of Ghanaian nurses,especially the females,would be acceptable to any country in need of their services.If the Nursing Colleges would only train their products in this area,foreign countries will be happy to employ them. At the moment it is a NO NO.

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• Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

  What are some of the measured benefits to Ghana since migration of Ghana's educated class? Is it in the disorderly construction of houses, commercial buildings in our communities? Is it in the stealth stealing and mismanagem ...
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  What are some of the measured benefits to Ghana since migration of Ghana's educated class? Is it in the disorderly construction of houses, commercial buildings in our communities? Is it in the stealth stealing and mismanagement of government funds without electronic or paper trail of our politicians? Is it in our copy and paste mode where we implement schemes from foreign nations in Ghana with disastrous results? Please point to any nation where export of their educated have yielded reasonable returns? India, China, Mexico and other nations saw meaningful returns when companies from developed industrialized nations set up shop on their respective soil. The flow of FDI is yet to happen on the African continent despite migration of our educated class spanning decades. We are used as suckers and have taken the excuse of unstable African governments as reasons for the rather morbid FDI flows. On the contrary, investments in China, Russia, India, Bangladesh, Mexico and other nations whose interests are not only adverse to western developed, industrialized nations grow year to year and acts of spying and stealing of intellectual property tends to add up to greater financial losses than the loss, real or imagined, in African nations with unstable governments. So yes dream on because the new version of the slave ships will arrive.

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• London 10 years ago

  If Ghanaian institutions are training more nurses, teachers and other professionals this can only be better for the nation and citizens. Certainly, you are not unaware of the debacle of colonisation and the effect of slavery ...
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  If Ghanaian institutions are training more nurses, teachers and other professionals this can only be better for the nation and citizens. Certainly, you are not unaware of the debacle of colonisation and the effect of slavery on our nations and you do not want to see young Ghanaians wearing the shackles of modern servitude again. The answer to this is to ensure proper management of resources, arrest corruption and maintain balance in the economy

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  This is a topic I had spent a lot of time discussing in the '90s. I brought the attention of even experts in migration studies to the fact that the internationalists in the great debate of the 1960s on the supposed brain drai ...
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  This is a topic I had spent a lot of time discussing in the '90s. I brought the attention of even experts in migration studies to the fact that the internationalists in the great debate of the 1960s on the supposed brain drain afflicting Asian countries had been vindicated and the nationalists who were against the alleged brain drain discredited by the 1980s. In another 10 to 15 years, we'd begin to see clearly the beneficial fall-outs of Africa's own presumed brain drain even though there are myriads of examples to point at already.
  
  The Philippines is one country which has marked out itself as an exporter of health personnel and domestics to Asia, the Middle East, Europe and N. America. Can the lure for foreign exchange be said to nullify the negatives, such as the abuses some suffer? We have been reading of same happening to Ghanaian women lured to the the Middle East already.
  
  All said and done, the ILO estimates put at over US$100bn the loss to LDCs due to restrictions on the movt of labour in this pernicious international pecking order of capitalism. Re-training our nurses to make them suitable for export to the West is one way we can carve back a bit of that.
  
  Andy-K

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• Apento, Accra. 10 years ago

  Good work done, Sir Gray. Learning from the varied responses.

  Good work done, Sir Gray. Learning from the varied responses.

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• Chiba 10 years ago

  Laudable idea. The policy makers take it into consideration.

  Laudable idea. The policy makers take it into consideration.

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• Kiwi 10 years ago

  So true dear... Great work Dan.... God bless u... A word to the wise........ .

  So true dear... Great work Dan.... God bless u... A word to the wise........ .

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• boston 10 years ago

  It is a great idea I live in the USA and these nurses will have to trained all over again pass the state they will be living in examine.Here in this country if you did not learn it here you are somehow seen as not good at you ...
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  It is a great idea I live in the USA and these nurses will have to trained all over again pass the state they will be living in examine.Here in this country if you did not learn it here you are somehow seen as not good at your profession so therefore you have to prove yourself so that is why some of us learn different things when we get here .

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• Kutufam 10 years ago

  Very laudable, I only hope our leaders will read and do something about it to help us. God bless our homeland Ghana.

  Very laudable, I only hope our leaders will read and do something about it to help us. God bless our homeland Ghana.

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• Kreskes 10 years ago

  Well said bro, hope our policy makers take it up.
  Don't stop.

  Well said bro, hope our policy makers take it up.
  Don't stop.

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• Kreskes 10 years ago

  Well said bro, hope our policy makers take it up.

  Well said bro, hope our policy makers take it up.

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• Amanatey 10 years ago

  onpoint bro...

  onpoint bro...

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