Report shows severe loss of health care workers in African countries

, a reportshows that
the loss of health care workers in Africa is very serious,an average of one in five African doctors work in developed countriesThe report, released by the Washington-based Center for Global Development,about 135,000 African-born physicians and nurses currently work in developed countries, about
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0 percent of the total number of physicians and 10 percent of the total number of nurses in AfricaThe report notes that conflict and poverty are major factors contributing to the outflow of health-care workers in AfricaThe increased outflow of health care workers in Africa has dealt a heavy blow to the health cause in African countriesThe report says countries such as Angola,Congo(
) , Guinea-Bissau , Liberia , Mozambique , Rwanda and Sierra Leone all experienced civil wars in the 1990s, losing more than 40 per cent of their health-care workers by the 2000 Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, on the other hand, experienced economic stagnation the end of the last century, more than half of the physician outflow