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The great health service swindle / filmed & directed by Kim Hopkins ; TVE.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Life (Bullfrog Films). Series 5 ; program 5.
- Life series 5 ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nurses--Ghana.
- Nurses.
- Nursing--Ghana.
- Nursing.
- Brain drain--Ghana.
- Brain drain.
- Medical care--Ghana.
- Medical care.
- Ghana--Economic conditions--1979-.
- Ghana.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (26 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- For over forty years there's been a trickle of Ghanaian nurses to the English-speaking developed world. One widely quoted source says almost two thousand nurses left the country between 1995 and 2002. The exodus is set to continue as nurses opt to leave a crumbling health system to earn more abroad. In the UK, some nurses can earn more in a day than they could in a month back home. Spending on health in Ghana has gone up but its value has declined. In 1990 it was $4.5 dollars per person per year. In 2004 the figure was $13.4 dollars. However, inflation means that Ghana is spending less in real terms per person. Most of that money goes to wages. For almost everything else, patients have to pay because the health service operates on a 'user pays' principle, the so-called 'cash and carry' system. The stresses of this system is one reason health workers leave.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Adjoa Andoh.
- Credits:
- Editor, Smita Malde ; executive producer, Brenda Kelly ; series producer, Dick Bower.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: TVE, ©2005; previously released in 2006.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-l5ghss Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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