💡LISTEN: experience of migrant #healthworkers can be one of loneliness, #depression and lack of integration in destination countries

🎯ACT: address #healthsystems issues with #decentwork improve conditions & livelihoods, better support #mentalhealth of workers

#WHA77

Exciting surprise ending to rich #WHA77 #healthworker #migration discussion by Department of Health Philippines THET
🇵🇭🇯🇲 Sign collaboration agreement
faculty sharing
Clinical rotation
Health facility management
Biotech
Everything that advances getting #HealthForAll to the people who need it most

Gratitude also to Department of Health Philippines THET and all participants for a rich discussion and expressed commitment to action
#LetsDoItNow #wha77 #ProtectInvestTogether

New Africa Health Workforce Investment Charter is welcome
It's an opportunity also for CSOs to get involved George Kimani Amref Health Africa
It's time to
Collaborate
Collaborate
Collaborate
#WHA77 Margaret Caffrey ' #LetsDoItNow
afro.who.int/publications/n…

👉Dialogue
👉Partnership+Collaboration
👉Ethical Practice
👉Retention
👉Equity
Avoid 'Every Land for Itself' that creates vulnerability for all countries
🌍 #healthworker recruitment not working for most countries
#WHA77 energy at🇵🇭event must ignite ACTION
#ProtectInvestTogether

✅Policy coherence: skills development+employment+work conditions
✅Gender equality-1 in 7 healthworkers=migrants
BUT 20% pay gap
=Pay for =Work
✅Representation-safeguarding rights
✅Care economy
@ILO priorities global equitable #healthworkforce #ProtectInvestTogether #WHA77

As the child of immigrant physicians Atul Gawande can see many facets of @healthworkforce #migration

Critical to strengthen policy for mutually beneficial #healthworker #migration

Appreciate advances in minimum wage, access to occupational safety, #jobopportunity
#WHA77

Equity of access to health care is the only solution
Small countries like 🇯🇲spend significant💰to educate #healthworkers only to have them poached by private recruiters Dr. Chris Tufton

We need fundamental change to achieve the equity we all deserve #ProtectInvestTogether #WHA77

Global skills partnership involves hospitals & universities to adapt curricula & practicum to ensure #healthworkers perform to highest standard
Fair Recruitment Germany provides safeguards, ethical standards Bundesentwicklungsministerium #WHA77
👏Art 7 on #healthworkforce approved in Pandemic Treaty

If there are no human resources, there is no health system
#WHA77 DOH Philippines Bonquillo
Big concern for🇵🇭 from where largest proportion of migrant health workers come
Investing in capacity development, scholarships, team deployment system, 🇵🇭looking at training, knowledge transfer

23% of🇫🇯 #nurses migrated in 2023
National retention solutions
✅increased remuneration
✅improve working environment
It's not about competition; it's about collaboration to address the PUSH-PULL factors of #healthworker #migration Dr Lalabalavu Fiji Minister Health
#WHA77

🇧🇼is both sending & recruiting country #healthworker #migration Ministry of Health, Botswana Prof Nkomazana
Need to be innovative in recruitment, retention & invest in #education & #opportunity #WHA77

▶️2.7M medical graduates work outside their origin country
▶️1.1M =nurses
▶️10 countries >majority of migrant Drs & Nurses
👏 countries collecting data & putting in public domain
🕰️to use that data for smart migration strategies
Jim Campbell #wha77 THET
#ProtectInvestTogether

Western Pacific States agreed on framework to save #health workforce for the future Dr Saia Ma'u Piukala
✅right skills mix
✅best training
✅fair working conditions
Investment in #health workers is investment in
✅economies
✅ #equity
✅ #jobs
✅ #health
#WHA77 #LetsDoIt #ProtectInvestTogether