[afro-nets] Efforts under way to stem brain drain of doctors...(9)

[Adams Ayuba <pjadamz@yahoo.co.uk>]

Efforts under way to stem brain drain of doctors...(9)
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This is an attempt to repost an earlier response that just re-
fused to go through correctly.

On this issue, it is my personal conviction that the days of
geographical borders, are fast giving way, to the forces of re-
fined demand and supply. The need to meet the high demand, if
met with the realities of economies in the world, could lead to
some stability of human and material resources. But easier said
than done. The developed nations have better facilities and re-
sources to attract any (young and old) professional(s) or ama-
teur(s) who, are/is thinking of their/his/her career and of
cause economy/family. The developing world is full of cases
where, professionalism is abused by charlatans, and political
thugs who believe more in the power to turn their states/nations
as personal belongings than move it forward in the lines of
global aspirations.

There are cases of nations who will not do any thing about
alarming rise of diseases, but wait till NGO's and Civil Organi-
zations from the developed world come with aid, that will still
be looted and returned to foreign accounts. Why won't their pro-
fessional look for where they can advance their skills?

But also the realities of the increasing large number of poor
people in the developing nations should cause shivers to any
sensible being. Before the conference, I would suggest humbly,
that the stake holders in medicines, religions, Media, NGOs, CS,
Sociology, Politics and ICT, should start looking at ways in
which e-medicine could be availed in as many poor developing
villages as possible. This will increase the reachability of in-
dividual/groups of medical practitioners, increase their area of
influence, while still in their domain of preference. With a
little aid from the postal/courier and transport industries, re-
duction in distance will enable fluidity for needed transfers of
medications and medical personnel, in cases of need.

If the professional sports people could do that, with some modi-
fications it can be adapted in Global Medicine. Thanks to Mercy
Ships and San frontiers & so many others that have been reaching
out to areas unmentionable in some cases.

I look forward to plastic surgery in the wood lands of Nigeria
by a team of volunteer experts from ten to twelve developed na-
tions, who met and planned on the internet to use a week of
their vacation for humanitarian duties in Africa. It is happen-
ing already, it can be fine tuned.

It is a personal humble opinion. Thanks.

Adamu Ayuba (mhcima)
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Box 8551 Zone 1, Wuse Abuja, Nigeria
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