ABSTRACT
With the escalation of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) across the globe, shortages in the already scarce medical workforce are imminent. Historically, more developed economies have looked abroad to augment their health systems. This paper aims to offer plausible solutions on how to avert future medical brain drain from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the aftermath of COVID-19. We opine that emigration of medical workers from low-resource settings to more industrialized regions should be viewed by the destination countries as both a moral and an ethical issue. Countries in SSA must generally provide good leadership, diversify their economies, and ensure adequate security. Specifically, there are needs to improve health care workers' remuneration, provide more opportunities for specialization, and reduce waiting time for employment. It is our opinion that such multisectoral and multi-modal approaches will effectively halt and even reverse the on-going brain drain in the region, converting it to brain gain.
Subject(s)
COVID-19 , Emigration and Immigration , Africa South of the Sahara , Health Personnel , Humans , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
With the closure of all public places, the stay-at-home order and the worsening economic indices occasioned by the fall in the price of crude oil with no foreseeable end, learned helplessness, negative emotions, and other psychosocial problems are bound to thrive. Interventions to improve social capital, coping resources, resilience, and good community and family cohesion are needed to promote psychosocial well-being during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).