British theft of African workers leaves health care and nurses close to collapse
While hundreds of thousands of British nurses leave the service because of low pay and terrible conditions, the theft of nursing staff from Malawi has brought that country’s already weak health care system to the point of collapse.
Nurses in the poor African country are being forced to work 32-hour shifts because so many of their colleagues have migrated to work in the UK and the United States. Dorothy Ngoma, executive director of the National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi, is justifiably angry that nearly 10% of her country’s nurses have already left.
“In some hospitals where they are short-staffed, nurses do a normal shift of 4 p.m - 8 a.m, then they do a second shift. They are exhausted.
“Sometimes nurses provide care for 50 to 100 patients on a shift. It is almost impossible to work like this.”
Under pressure from British nurses worried about their pay being undercut, and from African leaders desperate to stem the haemorrhage of trained staff, the Government has finally put Malawi on a list of countries that are out of bounds to Health Trust recruiters.
This, however, is little more than cynical window-dressing, because with so many poached Malawian nurses already over here, word-of-mouth recruitment of friends and relatives inevitably continues. Thus more and more children and invalids in one of the world’s poorest countries suffer and die, while British nurses face more and more competition, which helps target-driven Trusts hold down wages and impose ever-worse working conditions.
One of the first actions of a British National Party group elected to the Greater London Assembly would be to end this looting by proposing a ban on hospitals in London recruiting any trained nursing staff from any African country, combined with a push to speed up the provision of affordable housing for British nurses training or working in the capital.
Would the other parties follow the line of commonsense and decency and support our proposals? Or would their hysterical fear of elected BNP representatives lead them to make fools of themselves by opposing our motion and supporting the continued post-colonial exploitation of countries like Malawi?
The only way to find out - and the only way for London-based healthcare workers to get a London government that looks after their interests - is for every visitor to this site who lives in Greater London to vote British National Party on the London Top-Up list on May 1st.
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For years we have had the Tories, Liberals and Labour Party telling us immigration was a great thing as we had so many African nurses and doctors in British hospitals.
For years the BNP have been saying that stealing doctors from the Developing World during the present AID’s crisis and famines was tantamount to being an accomplice to genocide.
Along with the laudable suggestions above as regards British born and trained nurses to replace the ones stolen from the poorest and most suffering people on the planet, how about having a policy that we will end all the bungs and bribes paid by Livingstone to his cabal of ethnic mafia gangs in London and that we will divert the money to having funding for a team of police officers to be present at all times in London hospitals so as to prevent attacks on nurses.
This (for me) debunks the myth that the left gives a toss about poorer countries.
It just provides an excuse for self-congratulatory posing and snobbish finger-wagging at the morally inferior underclass.
The British media should be ashamed of itself for not reporting things like this!
They are ready to shout about it, as good thing when the government say look what we are doing!
Once the elites get hold of our institutions, no matter whether they are headed by a Tory, Labour, or Liberal, their funders and backers with money, always get thier way. The NHS is being lined up for a complete takeover by the ”private sector”. The looting of foreign workers on low pay, funded by the British tax payer and national debt, is all part of the agenda. Once any country allows this bleeding of skills, reaches its lowest state, the banks then send in the loan sharks in the form of the world bank. We suffer through debt and unemployment, they suffer through debt and loss of skilled labour.
Pretty obvious to most people, that taking nurses from Africa would damage their health sevices,but not our crooked politicians. The young impressionable school leavers are not taught that there are plenty of worthwhile jobs or careers to train for, only that you must get into university, if only how to manage a golf course!!
The other ambition is to be a’celebrity’, whatever that is, all brought about by Bliar and McBroon.
We must, when we are in power, re-educate to the effect that there is nothing wrong in starting at the bottom and working oneself up, it always worked in the past.
Nursing is a very fine career, a dedicated one, one that can be very fulfilling.
I have to laugh when I see such comments as low pay etc for nurses.
Try working for a local council on £15.000 a year.
Most local authority workers have to work 6/7 days a week to actually pay the basics.
There’s no-one so racist as a left-winger, whose view of other cultures in lands far away is they “dont know any better”, and can thus be excused the rigorous standards or treatment we set for ourselves; the inverse of this is that we can mistreat and exploit them, as we have done for some time under the Conservatives, and now Labour, by pillaging their lands and their societies.
In colonial days we were inspired by an ethos of service to the peoples we governed; today, like the Chinese in Africa (who do it even better than we can), the left doesn’t actually give a damn for African people in Africa. I have personal experience of conditions in Lilongwe General Hospital in Malawi, for I was an in-patient there; staff shortages are just one of the funding-related problems Malawi faces in its health service.
We shouldn’t have to dress up a perfectly proper desire to safeguard nursing jobs in Britain for British nurses, with concern for Africa’s health services. Our first duty is to our own people, here in Britain; for that reason alone it ought to be sufficient that we cease to employ nursing staff from Africa.
Labour policies on immigration of health workers coming from Third World countries that are in dire need of qualified professionals is immoral and inhumane.
Our Labour government talks a lot about helping the poorest countries and the first thing it does is to steal health workers from those countries that lack the most basic resources.
I now expect that common sense idea to be stolen from the BNP and probably be in the papers and on the media, probably as early as tomorrow with a Labour party stamp on it.
It’s not just the health workers, that are being recruited from these countries, its teachers, people with technical skills, and other qualifications too. That’s another reason why these countries never progress. All the more intelligent and capable ones leave in search of a better life.
Askari’s bang on, the old imperial system that often took resources from Third World countries, also set up vast transportation networks (trains, roads), sensible and fair legal systems, hospitals, schooling in a modern Western style, running water, defence of their borders, and also created jobs and security for thousands of indigenous peoples who might have otherwise been totally impoverished.
As we all know there were abuses in this system as with any, but overall it gave something in return. The nasty Marxist-Stalinist Nu-labour (what’s new about treason?) see no wrong in plundering the 3rd world of their only hope of ever hauling themselves out of their nations’ dilemma, their brains and hard working key workers. And to cap it all, not a thing is left in return for this robbery - just more reliance on world aid and no hope of ever taking a step forward out of the poverty trap.
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Why is why the likes of “sir” Elton John et al like to wail about 3rd world poverty! - Ed
According to the FCO travel advice website on Malawi the “Healthcare standards, particularly in the rural areas, are generally poor.” This is true of many poorer countries, and one wonders why Britain is recruiting from countries where by its own admission the standards of practice are poor. It is known that foreign medical practitioners are more than twice as likely to have formal complaints made against them in the UK. A study concluded that this was not due to racism of the complainants. Therefore, as a result of importing huge numbers of medical practitioners, we can look forward to the sort of healthcare to be found in Malawi and many other countries.
There was a report related to this on Sky News last year the reporter was at a training school in Malawi. When asked how many were planning to move to the UK and work in the NHS, everyone raised their hands. This sort of practice should be made illegal because no-one is a winner:as usual, it’s short-term quick fix from New Labour without thinking through the consequences. It’s just a sinister move to make sure we don’t see nurses wielding ‘Not a penny more, not a penny less’ type placards outside number 10, I mean as if a nurse from Malawi would complain about UK rates of pay! Brown must think himself a genius when really he is an immoral hypocrite.
Poland is another nation which is feeling the effcts of this behaviour though not as drastically. They are trying to develop their economy but UK and others are poaching many skilled workers. I think Poland just thought they could get rid of the unwanted undesirable people and dump them on us. The EU voting system emerging from the Lisbon treaty/constitution is also why Poland are not best pleased, the bigger your population the more clout you have in the EU.
I thought British nurses were doing well — by leaving the NHS and working as agency nurses. The official dogma seems to be that ‘outsourcing’ is more efficient — probably this is a rumour spread by people profiting from the system.
I suspect the same, or more so, must be true of doctors. Considering all the equipment, anatomical/physiological discoveries, operation procedures, anaesthetics etc were without any exception that I know of, developed in the west, it seems absurd that this situation could ever have developed…
One of the original purposes of taking overseas personnel was to save the cost of training up home bred nurses. That made a tiny bit of sense if you where a rabid capitalist. But unfortunatly this stupid bunch of incompetents Imports nursing staff and trains homegrown staff to languish on the dole. Stupid, racist, and unable to run a tap. And we fund it by paying their murderous taxes and voting them in, in the first place. If they can’t run a tap, what does that make us?
ON MAY 1st please start to undo this nightmare that we live in.
The fact that skilled health workers from poor African countries which desperately need them are brought here and employed in the NHS really must count as one of the most thoughtless acts we’ve ever seen from the BNP’s opponents.
It really is staggering that this policy is pursued by people who tell us they are appalled by what they call ‘racism’. It would be interesting to see research into how many African deaths have possibly been caused by this policy.