"Past the point of sanity"—South East Asia faces critical shortage of healthcare workers
Long working hours, low pay, and the legacy of the pandemic are pushing healthcare workers in South East Asia to leave the sector, worsening chronic workforce shortages, reports Sonia Sarkar When 46 year old Eli Mazur injured his head after a fall, he rushed to the state run hospital in Xuyen Moc, 100 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City. After running from one end to the other for about 30 minutes, Mazur found only two nurses, who offered to suture the cut. “It was difficult to find emergency healthcare in a rural area,” the life science lawyer at YKVN recalls. His experience is common for m...
Source: bmj.com