Fears that healthcare providers in Ghana are beginning to collapse have been raised as specialist nurses are leaving to work within the UK and different nations.

The head of one of many world’s largest nursing teams has claimed the recruitment of nurses by high-income nations from poorer nations is “out of control”.

Last yr, greater than 1,200 nurses from Ghana joined the UK’s nursing register.

Hospitals within the West African nation are struggling to maintain staffing numbers up with considerations sufferers’ lives are in danger consequently.

It comes because the NHS has been relying extra on workers from nations outdoors the EU to fill roles.

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While lively recruitment by the NHS in Ghana shouldn't be allowed, nurses are simply capable of see accessible vacancies by way of social media permitting them to use for jobs instantly.

Chief govt officer of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), Howard Catton, is worried concerning the influence of nurses being recruited abroad.

Speaking to the BBC he mentioned: "My sense is that the situation currently is out of control.

"We have intense recruitment going down primarily pushed by six or seven high-income nations however with recruitment from nations that are a few of the weakest and most weak which may ill-afford to lose their nurses."

And the head of nursing at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital in Ghana, Gifty Aryee, reported that the intensive care unit had lost 20 nurses to the UK and US in the last six months.

"Care is affected as we aren't capable of take any extra sufferers. There are delays and it prices extra in mortality - sufferers die," she informed the BBC.

She explained that seriously ill patients were regularly held for longer in the emergency department due to the nursing shortages.

It was a similar story at Cape Coast Municipal Hospital in the south of Ghana.

Deputy head of nursing services, Caroline Agbodza, claimed 22 nurses departed for the UK over the last year.

She said: "All our crucial care nurses, our skilled nurses, have gone.

“So we end up having nothing - no experienced staff to work with.

“Even if the government recruits, we have to go through the pain of training nurses again."

Staff migration is also affecting smaller clinics as just one nurse leaving could have a large impact.

Two experienced nurses recently left the Ewim Health Clinic in Cape Coast, the BBC reports, after finding jobs in the UK.

Smaller clinics are also affected by staff migration because even one nurse leaving a small health centre can have a large knock-on effect.

Chief doctor there at the clinic, Doctor Justice Arthur, commented: "Let's take services like immunisation of children.

“If we lose public health nurses, then the babies that have to be immunised will not get their immunisation and we are going to have babies die.”

Ghana is listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one in all 55 weak nations, which have low numbers of nurses per capita - as a part of the “red list” designed to stop systemic recruitment there.

Jim Campbell, the WHO's director of well being workforce, mentioned that that Brexit had been an element within the UK trying to African nations for nurses.

"The labour market is extraordinarily aggressive all over the world and, having closed off the potential labour market from European freedom of motion, what we're seeing is the results of that when it comes to attracting individuals from the Commonwealth and different jurisdictions,” he mentioned.

The UK authorities not too long ago gave £15m to Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya to assist enhance their healthcare workforces however a proper deal might be made with Ghana permitting extra proactive recruitment in return for cash per nurse.