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Alliance News Digest

Information

WEEK OF 13 November 2009

News related to/from the Global Health Workforce Alliance

• Reality Check: Better pay helps, but more health workers needed in Ghana - The Alliance. (11/6)
  Alliance Communications paid a visit to the La General Hospital in Accra and discussed with health workers about their daily challenges.
  
  

AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST

• NHI is a Boost to Health - Health-e, SA. (11/9)
  Waiting lists for non-emergency care is mainly due to the shortage of health workers.
  

• NPP & ¢6bn contract scam - The Ghanaian Chronicle. (11/9)
  Among the problems in the country’s health systems to be addressed, is the shortage of health care personnel.
  

• Malawi-Health-Nurses - African Press Agency, Senegal. (11/9)
  Civil society urges Malawi gov’t to reinstate tuition subsidy for nurses.
  

• Protest over deaths of babies - Sowetan, SA. (11/10)
  there was a shortage of doctors and nurses at the hospital
  

• Minister presents 350 jungle motorcycles to health workers - Peace FM Online, Ghana. (11/10)
  A fulfillment of government's promise to support the service to bring health care to the doorsteps the ordinary Ghanaian.
  

• No OSD for ECape health workers - News24, SA. (11/10)
  The OSD is a revised salary scale for health workers that takes experience into account.
  

• Mahama commissions Sunyani Regional Hospital - Ghana News Agency. (11/6)
  Many health workers refused to accept posting to rural areas.
  

• Health situation is ailing - The Citizen, Tanzania. (11/11)
  The public health sector is suffering from shortage of trained manpower and lack of basic medical equipment.
  

• Nurses Can Register for 
Employment Exams Online - Khaleej Times, UAE. (11/7)
  he shortage of nurses in UAE hospitals is expected to be plugged by a new online recruitment system.
  
  

ASIA AND PACIFIC

• Shri Azad briefs Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare - Press Information Bureau, India. (11/6)
  There is a need for higher investment in health sector
  

• MCI mulls new course to ensure docs in rural areas - Times of India. (11/11)
  According to statistics, there is a shortage of around 56% of male health workers and 12.4% of female health workers in rural areas.
  

• Nurses wanted for scholarship - Star News, Australia. (11/10)
  Victoria has experienced a shortage of qualified maternal and health care nurses for the past couple of years
  

• Curbed midwives push to break free - Sydney Morning Herald. (11/9)
  Midwives wish to have working relationships with health services rather than individual doctors.
  

• A healthy change - Sydney Morning Herald. (11/10)
  Any threat to the concept of the family GP should be closely scrutinised.
  

• Health system 'wasting nurses' - Science Alert, Australia. (11/9)
  Nurse practitioners are facing significant barriers to providing service as health providers.
  
  

NORTH AMERICA

• Cambodia Struggles to Save Mothers, Even as It Succeeds in Reducing Child Deaths - Voice of America News. (11/10)
  Around 460 Cambodian women die in childbirth for every 100,000 births
  

• Health Workforce Center Open In Boro - Queens Tribune, NY. (11/5)
  The center will focus on training New Yorkers to enter careers in health-related occupations.
  

• Expanding the Primary Care Workforce - American Progress. (11/3)
  One reason medical students do not choose to enter a primary care specialty is economic
  

• National Organization Honors Clarian's Work Force Program - Inside INdiana Business. (11/3)
  Clarian Health's Workforce Prosperity Program is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  

• Journal of Public Health Management presents new ideas for building better public health workforce - The Medical News. (11/6)
  There is a range of health issues that public health leaders have faced for years.
  

• Psychiatrists can get compassion fatigue - Dallas Morning News. (11/10)
  An acute shortage of trained mental health workers in the military has left these therapists emotionally drained and overworked
  

• New Release of Funding to Fight HAIs in Ambulatory Surgical Centers - DOTmed News. (11/10)
  Ambulatory care facilities are a major part of health care service shift to outpatient settings
  

• Senegal Health Workers Struggle with Prenatal Care for Rural Women - Voice of America News. (11/11)
  Senegalese health officials say poverty, poor roads and lack of medical care give Kolda the country's most alarming rates of maternal and infant mortality
  

• Le manque de personnel dénoncé - Le Droit, Canada. (11/9)
  La directrice du Foyer a admis le manque d'infirmières et d'infirmières auxiliaires
  
  

EUROPE

• Health-workforce development in the Cuban health system - The Lancet, UK. (11/7)
  Besides doctors and nurses, particular attention was placed on training auxiliary personnel to serve in rural areas
  

• People with HIV providing high quality treatment support in community - AidsMap News, UK. (11/6)
  Task-shifting has been advocated by WHO and other health experts in the context of a clinical health care worker shortage
  

• The right to health in times of economic crisis: Cuba's way - The Lancet, UK. (11/7)
  The current economic crisis affects the health of millions of people in developing countries.
  

• NHS nurses must have degree under new rules - Times Online, UK. (11/12)
  All new nurses will need to be educated to degree level in an attempt to improve the quality of patient care
  

• Doctors get ill too (Editorial) - The Lancet, UK. (11/14)
  European Union’s working-time directive seeks to limit the maximum working week to 48 h.
  

• GB: Brown s'engage à durcir les mesures sur l'immigration - Tribune de Genève. (11/12)
  La Grande-Bretagne subissait une pénurie de médecins et d'infirmières à l'arrivée au pouvoir en 1997 du Parti travailliste de M. Brown
  

• La pénurie de médecins, un mal chronique - Midi Libre, France. (11/10)
  En matière d'urgence médicale, la pénurie de toubibs est bel et bien une réalité.
  

• Bengoa dice que faltan algunos especialistas y que hay "sobreuso" del sistema - ABC, Spain. (11/9)
  En el Servicio Vasco de Salud-Osakidetza faltan especialistas en Pediatría, Atención Primaria y Radiología
  
  

LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

• Enfermeras decretan paro de labores en el Leonardo Martínez - Radio América, Honduras. (11/5)
  Falta de pagos salariales a las enfermeras es a nivel nacional.
  

• Cifra de fallecidos por gripe AH1N1 asciende a 97 personas - InternoInteligente, Venezuela. (11/9)
  Situación mejorará con la llegada de médicos cubanos más la integración de venezolanos procedentes de la primera promoción de médicos integrales
  

• Pujança econômica e miséria - Última Instância, Brazil. (11/10)
  A situação calamitosa em que se encontra a rede hospitalar que atende os pacientes do SUS.
  

• Convênio entre SUS e Perinatal para salvar bebês - O Día, Brazil. (11/10)
  Hoje, 400 crianças não têm acesso ao tratamento
  

• Plano de saúde ao alcance de todos - Pagina 20, Brazil. (11/8)
  Ampliar a assistência à saúde da população e facilitar o acesso aos serviços de atendimento médico especializado.
  

• Hay deficiencia de atención en Hospital Lorena por falta de infraestructura - El Sol del Cusco, Peru. (11/11)
  Se necesita más presupuesto para contratar más enfermeras, profesionales técnicos, médicos, etc.
  

• Comunidad se queja de falta de médico en Ambulatorio Los Bambúes - El Tiempo, Venezuela. (11/11)
  Se supone que debe operar las 24 horas del día.
  

• Vecinos denuncian falta de atención médica en la Guardia del Hospital - Diario El Chubut, Argentina. (11/12)
  Sostienen que los fines de semana la cantidad de médicos no alcanza para cubrir la demanda.
  
  

News from WHO and partners

• WHO calls for action beyond the health sector to improve the health of girls and women - WHO. (11/9)
  Despite progress, societies continue to fail women at key times
  

• Country on the Move: Rwanda’s Family Planning Efforts Begin to Pay Off - UNFPA. (11/11)
  Although the country lost much of its health personnel and infrastructure as a result of the genocide that shattered the country 15 years ago, Rwanda has brought its health care system back to life.
  

• Ageing medical workforce in Australia - where will the medical educators come from? – HRH Journal. (11/5)
  As the general practitioner and specialist medical workforce ages there is likely to be a large number of retirees in the near future.
  

• International flow of Zambian nurses (Commentary) - HRH Journal. (11/11)
  This commentary paper highlights changing patterns of outward migration of Zambian nurses
  

• Assessment of human resources management practices in Lebanese hospitals (Research) - HRH Journal. (11/12)
  Sound HR management practices are essential for retaining effective professionals in hospitals