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The nurses in the third world countries are now trooping to many developed countries of the world to seek for greener pasture. This simply tells us that they are not receiving good pay in their respective countries.

This situation is also called “brain drain” – the massive activity of leaving the country by many professionals seeking many work opportunities in foreign lands. In this case, many professionals in Asian countries are now trooping in America and many other countries in Europe. The dollar and Euro currencies are luring many people to try their luck in other places. They believe that their career as health care professionals will never shine if they stay longer in their countries. Despite of this problem faced by many nurses, there is also massive demand for healthcare professions in progressive countries of the world. This is now the worst scenario that every third world country is also under threat. There were many hospitals now that do not have the exact number of nurses and other professionals such as therapists, care givers, radiologists, medical transcription graduates and many other professionals related to medical health .

The governments in third world countries are also alarmed of the brain drain dilemma and starting to execute measures before it’s too late. In fact, in the Philippines two years ago a provincial hospital in Northern Mindanao had to ask help from a security guard of the hospital to assist emergency cases when a total of 79 nurses simultaneously leave the hospital when they were hired to work in the US. The sad situation there was the nurses silently applied for the work abroad without the knowledge of the hospital administrator. As a result, the hospital did not able to prepare itself for the worst scenario that suddenly came. Since the problem already took place the hospital has nothing to do but to immediately hire replacements. It took them several weeks before it could properly resume normal operations.

The same problem is, in fact, observed by many hospitals and other healthcare institutions in the country so that one of the top government officials had to lobby a resolution hiring the services of Indian nurses. Sadly, the resolution became a controversy and died in the process.

Unless the government of the Philippines could give sufficient reasons for health care professionals to stay in the country the brain drain problem remains to be an issue to be solved for.