Charity and Voluntary Sector
VSO: African health workers in the UK should be allowed to ‘pause’ their citizenship journey to return home temporarily to help tackle poverty, international development charity VSO said recently.
The recommendation is one of a number of policy measures proposed in Brain Gain, a VSO report highlighting how improved circular migration, the legal & recurring movement of people, could help international aid efforts to ‘tackle brain drain; the mass exodus of trained health workers from Africa’.
The recommendation is one of a number of policy measures proposed in Brain Gain, a VSO report highlighting how improved circular migration, the legal & recurring movement of people, could help international aid efforts to ‘tackle brain drain; the mass exodus of trained health workers from Africa’.
African health worker seeking citizenship must have been resident for 5 years and not spent more than 450 days outside the UK in that period, which restricts opportunities to transfer skills to their home country, many of which suffer from a severe shortage of health workers.
