ABSTRACT
Ghana has high rates of emigration among its health workers especially doctors and nurses but this is also increasingly found among other health workers including pharmacists and laboratory technicians. A study of doctors’ migration from Ghana (Dovlo and Nyonator, 1999) estimated that 61 per cent of graduates of the country’s main medical school who qualified between 1986 and 1996 had emigrated. The intention of Ghanaian nurses to migrate as measured by requests for verification of their qualifications, showed that the figures for annual requests were nearly twice as high as the replacement training of new nurses (Buchan and Dovlo, 2004).
