Nursing Shortage

Beset by shortages of nurses, rich nations turn to the developing world for recruits

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 18th, 2004

Grappling with a shortage of nurses, hospitals in the United States are sending recruiters to Mexico and other poor nations, raising concerns of a possible drain on already strained healthcare in the developing world.

U.S. authorities have warned that the country could fall 275,000 nurses short of the numbers it will need by 2010, in part because of increasing healthcare demands from a growing elderly population.

Recruiters have long found help in the Philippines, which established schools to train nurses to work in the United States. The healthcare forces in India, South Korea and Nigeria have also been tapped.

But the latest...

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