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Africa's medical brain drain

BMJ 2005; 331 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7519.780-b (Published 29 September 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;331:780

Why I want to stay in Africa

  1. Emmanuel Makasa, registrar in orthopaedics (emakasa@yahoo.co.uk)
  1. Department of Surgery (Ortho), University Teaching Hospital, PO Box 50110, Ridgeway 15101, Lusaka, Zambia

    EDITOR—The prevailing view is that all African trained health workers want to get out of their countries as soon as possible. I don't, for the following six reasons.

    • The experience I get in Africa is far richer than that in the United Kingdom or United States. My logbook shows the number of supervised operations I have performed, and the outcomes of these, and shows how I have …

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