{"id":53577,"date":"2023-03-20T01:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/19\/challenges-of-recruiting-nurses-from-nepal"},"modified":"2023-03-20T01:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T16:19:03","slug":"challenges-of-recruiting-nurses-from-nepal-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53577","title":{"rendered":"Challenges of recruiting nurses from Nepal | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Radha Adhikari <\/strong>highlights the difficulties for healthcare workers in Nepal and the UK, both of which have shortages<\/p>\n<p>Re your article on recruiting nurses from Nepal by Pete Pattisson and Pramod Acharya (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/mar\/14\/if-we-leave-nepal-will-suffer-embattled-hospitals-fear-impact-of-uk-nhs-job-offers\">\u2018If we leave, Nepal will suffer\u2019: embattled hospitals fear impact of UK job offers, 14 March<\/a>), the<strong> <\/strong>global healthcare systems face unprecedented workforce pressures, and international nurse recruitment and migration policy experts suggest this will continue.<\/p>\n<p>As a Nepali nurse with almost 30 years\u2019 healthcare sector experience, I think that both authors accurately and pertinently highlight the key issues and sad truth around the UK government\u2019s plan to recruit nurses from Nepal. However, there are a few additional points worth raising about source and destination countries: the two dimensions of international recruitment and migration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/19\/challenges-of-recruiting-nurses-from-nepal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radha Adhikari highlights the difficulties for healthcare workers in Nepal and the UK, both of which have shortagesRe your article on recruiting nurses from Nepal by Pete Pattisson and Pramod Acharya (\u2018If we leave, Nepal will suffer\u2019: embattled hospita&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[566,346,241,1075,1076,79,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-health","category-health","category-nepal","category-nhs","category-nursing","category-society","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53578,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53577\/revisions\/53578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}