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Assignment 1
Assignment 1
Advise the government of Tanzania and other developing countries on the policy to attract
health workers to clinical settings within their home countries, taking into account the
interests of the important stakeholder groups. (30)
Migration of health workers searching for greener pastures is an acute problem experienced
by developing countries (Sirili and Simba, 2021; Mdegela et al., 2022). This aspect of brain
drain common in developing countries namely Tanzania, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Botswana,
Mozambique among others. As a result, shortage of health workers is a critical contemporary
problem in developing nations like Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Therefore, developing strategies
and policies to attract health workers from other countries and to limit movement of health
workers to developed nations is essential in these countries (Sirili et al., 2022; Makuku and
Mosadeghrad, 2022). Various strategies should be considered when formulating policies to
attract medical staff to clinical settings within their home countries. These include improving
working conditions in clinical setting, implementing competitive salaries and benefits,
providing professional development opportunities, developing partnerships with various
organisations , establishing telemedicine services, investing in healthcare infrastructure and
having clear legal framework related to movement of healthcare professionals. The
formulation of effective policies to attract health workers requires a comprehensive approach
that takes into account various factors.
In order to attract health workers to clinical settings within their home countries improved
working conditions are significant in developing countries (Muthuri et al., 2020; Mukuku and
Mosadeghrad, 2022). This implies that attraction of health workers require government of
Tanzania to focus on improving the working conditions in their clinical settings. This
includes providing adequate infrastructure, equipment, and resources, as well as ensuring a
clean and safe working environment. Improving working conditions also include ensuring
availability of adequate staff at all levels with the health sector (Shilinge, 2022;
Kamarulzaman et al., 2022) This entails that countries like Kenya, Uganda and Burundi
should provide a supportive work environment to their health workers (Muthuri et al., 2020).
Additionally, improved working standards must involve provision of free accommodation
and transportation to workers in the medical sector. Governments of Tanzania and other
developing countries like Mozambique, South Africa and Malawi should offer assistance to
health workers who wanted to relocate within the country. Improved living standards coupled
by working conditions for health workers limit their migration to developed countries while
the situation is also appealing to an extent of attracting health workers from developed
countries (Wintrup, 2022).
Banda-Chitsamatanga and Malinga (2021) and Noormahomed et al., (2022) noted that
offering competitive salaries and benefits to health workers plays a pivotal role to attract
health workers. Therefore, government of Tanzania and other developing countries like
Malawi and Democratic Republic of Congo should offer reasonable salaries and benefits
packages. This means they must provide high salaries, bonuses among other incentives to
entice health professionals to work in their home countries. In order to improve lives of
health workers, governments in developing countries should offer loans to health workers
(Mudzonga, 2020; Wintrup, 2022). Provision of loans to health workers enhance quality of
their lives, thus reducing brain drain in the health sector while attracting others from within
and outside the country to join their health sector. Governments in developing countries
including Tanzania should implement loan forgiveness programs directed to health workers.
This assist in reducing financial burden among health workers hence paving a route to attract
more health workers to join Tanzania workforce in the health sector. Loan forgiveness
programs can be appealing to professionals who have studied in developed countries and are
burdened with high levels of debt (Efendi et al., 2021; Sirili and Simba, 2021).
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a selected hospital in Windhoek, Namibia (Doctoral dissertation, Cape Peninsula University
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