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Fourteen thousand Philippine nurses have been
recruited into the UK over the past year
alone. They come from a part of the world that suffers some of the worst poverty anywhere.
In Places there is little or no health care system
and the mass exodus of their most highly trained nurses is making things even worse.
Many of them are highly skilled specialists but
the impoverished Philippine government is willing to sacrifice its healthcare provision for the hard currency the nurses send
home.
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The recruitment process has given rise to a multi-million
pound industry and with it allegations of abuse.
Agents are taking money to find nurses from equally
desperate hospitals in the west, and also taking cash from desperate nurses trying to escape poverty. It's another case of
cash being king in a fully globalised world.
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