International Council of Nurses (ICN) Proposes Moratorium On Recruitment Of Nurses From Developing Countries. Really!

Thus, patients will suffer! This is plain old protectionism likely based on some pretentious and wrong exploitation ideology!

The ICN is trying to create and intensify artificial shortages in order to demand higher wages! This playbook is well known!

These foreign nurses earn more money they can then repatriate. They gain more experience and have more training to benefit their home countries after they return. And so on ...

"The International Council of Nurses is calling on the WHO to consider a limited moratorium on the active recruitment of nurses from 55 countries with the most severe health worker shortages, following a “dramatic surge” in recruitment of nurses from LMICs."

"The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider a “time-limited moratorium of active recruitment of nurses” from countries on the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

This follows a “dramatic surge” in the recruitment of nurses from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by wealthy countries, according to the ICN. ..."

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International Body Proposes Moratorium On Recruitment Of Nurses From Developing Countries - Health Policy Watch

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