A report published by the WHO on Sub-Saharan Africa exposes the lack of health workers in Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Niger. As per the WHO report the vacancies for the post of nurses and doctors is less than proportion to the number of people suffering from HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases. The ratio of 3: 100,000 stands in comparison to 256: 100,000 people in the US. As per Dr. Timothy Evans, WHO’s assistant director general:
Not enough health workers are being trained or recruited where they are most needed, and increasing numbers are joining a brain drain of qualified professions who are migrating to better-paid jobs in richer countries.
The reason for brain drain is an effective pay to the skilled African workers in the UK and the US and this results in the less-educated health workers taking up serious health cases. However, South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has built a strategy to take control over the retrenchment of the health workers from the country. The only solution can be a proper health budget and motivation to the local health workers for holding them to their homeland.