Ghanaians Boosting UK Health System
Ghanaians Boosting UK Health System
2016 figures indicate that there are 2,289 Ghanaian health staff under the United Kingdom’s (UK) National Health Service (NHS).
Ghana contributes the 15th most human resources to the UK’s NHS and other African countries feature prominently, with Nigeria contributing 5,040, South Africa contributing 1,626 and Egypt contributing 887.
UK nationals contribute 971,878 persons to NHS staff, which range from cleaners to midwives to doctors.
These figures will be unsurprising, considering the brain drain migration of health workers from low and middle-income to high-income countries.
The *World Health Organisation predicts* that the current global shortage of over-7 million health workers will increase to 12.9 million by 2035, with the poorest countries in the suffering the most from these shortages.
