President Jacob Zuma on Thursday highlighted “the challenge of the brain drain” in the health sector on his return from a “successful working visit to Lyon”.
There the leader co-chaired‚ with France’s President François Hollande‚ the official launch of the United Nations High Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth.
The commission’s “key objectives are to come up with measures that will contribute to global inclusive economic growth‚ the creation of decent jobs and the achievement of universal health coverage”‚ a Presidency statement informed.
On his arrival back home on Thursday‚ Zuma concentrated on “health workforce shortages are growing…developing countries‚ including South Africa”.
“There’s also the challenge of the brain drain‚” the president said.
“Highly trained health care workers from developing countries often migrate to advanced economies where they are readily absorbed‚ never to return”.
Zuma said that “by training millions of health care workers all over the world and creating employment opportunities‚ we will go a long way to address the triple challenge of unemployment‚ poverty and inequality faced by developing countries”.
The commission will meet again on the margins of the UN General Assembly in September 2016.
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