GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – President Irfaan Ali says 1000’s of overseas-based Guyanese nurses, who left for increased salaries, might start returning dwelling to take up profitable job presents.
Late Wednesday, throughout a marketing campaign assembly forward of the September 1 election, Ali mentioned as soon as his occasion is returned to workplace, lots of the overseas-based Guyanese nurses would return earlier than 2030.
‘Throughout the subsequent 5 years, all of the nurses who left are going to come back again as a result of what we’re going to give our nurses right here will make no sense for them to be anyplace else.”
“They’re coming again as a result of we’re constructing stronger and higher, and Guyana at the moment is a land of alternative.”
Earlier this yr, the federal government confronted a backlash after deciding to rent overseas nurses and pay them profitable salaries in comparison with their native counterparts.
Though nurses and different medical professionals’ salaries have been elevated in 2022, they nonetheless opted to take up presents primarily in the UK and america.
The exodus of nurses just isn’t confined to Guyana; lately, the Barbados authorities employed Ghanaian nurses, and in Dominica, retirees have been rehired to fill vacancies.
In the meantime, Caribbean Group (CARICOM) Assistant Secretary Normal Alison Drayton informed the opening of the 52nd Annual Normal Assembly of the Regional Nursing Physique (RNB) in Bridgetown, Barbados, that the Area continues to face a essential scarcity of nurses and midwives. With the ‘State of the World’s Nursing Report 2025’, displaying that one in seven nurses globally have been practising exterior of the nation of their delivery, she mentioned that underscores a rising dependence on foreign-born nurses inside high-income nations.
“This dynamic poses important challenges to the event and sustainability of well being programs in low- and middle-income nations like these inside our Area. Accordingly, it’s crucial that the Area considerably enhance its investments within the schooling, recruitment, and retention of nurses and midwives to safeguard the resilience and effectiveness of our well being workforce,” Drayton mentioned.
