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The COVID-19 presented significant challenges to the global health, which are more pronounced in Africa. Despite the fact that Africa is well endowed in material and non-material resources, much of Africa is characterized by a high population disease burden, weak healthcare systems and limited access to healthcare and healthcare personnel due to the outward migration of African health workers for want of improved condition of service and better remuneration. The chapter examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the failure of the States in Africa to provide quality healthcare which has encouraged mass migration (brain drain) of her people to other continents thereby creating serious shortage of healthcare personnel in Africa. The paper is exploratory and descriptive with our discourse guided by the world system theory. Findings revealed that, having denied Africa equitable access to vaccine and other medical equipment, the wealthy countries resorted to pillaging the healthcare workers from African countries thereby exposing the weak and dependence of States in Africa on the West. We recommend that, States in Africa need to recruit, train and retain more health workers, and also ensure that such personnel meet the required criteria needed to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Post-colonial African States and Migration (Brain Drain) of Health Workers from Africa in the COVID-19 Era

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    2025年

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  • Ohazuruike Kennedy Chibuike,
  • Elechi Felix Aja

摘要

The COVID-19 presented significant challenges to the global health, which are more pronounced in Africa. Despite the fact that Africa is well endowed in material and non-material resources, much of Africa is characterized by a high population disease burden, weak healthcare systems and limited access to healthcare and healthcare personnel due to the outward migration of African health workers for want of improved condition of service and better remuneration. The chapter examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the failure of the States in Africa to provide quality healthcare which has encouraged mass migration (brain drain) of her people to other continents thereby creating serious shortage of healthcare personnel in Africa. The paper is exploratory and descriptive with our discourse guided by the world system theory. Findings revealed that, having denied Africa equitable access to vaccine and other medical equipment, the wealthy countries resorted to pillaging the healthcare workers from African countries thereby exposing the weak and dependence of States in Africa on the West. We recommend that, States in Africa need to recruit, train and retain more health workers, and also ensure that such personnel meet the required criteria needed to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.