17. WHO Institutes Guidelines for Recruitment of Foreign Health Care Workers
In May, international health leaders at the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva endorsed new guidelines relating to foreign health care workers that are designed to help countries strike a balance between meeting the health care needs of patients in developed economies with negative impacts such migration might have on health care systems in the home countries. The migration rights of individual health care workers also need to be addressed.
The document doesn’t seek to end migration, but instead to encourage recipient countries to work with source countries to ensure that the needs of both societies are being addressed. That might include providing development assistance to ensure that enough workers are being trained in the source country to meet domestic needs as well as the needs of people in the recipient country.
The code can be found at http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA63/A63_R16-en.pdf