Ethiopia: The 'Flood and Retain' Strategy and the Future of Ethiopian Doctors

opinion

Recently a group of unemployed graduate physicians have come forward and expressed their frustrations to various media that although the ministry of health assigned them to regional health bureaus, the answers they get from respective regional health bureaus were "we don't have the budget to hire you." Not were they only denied of employment but also of their rights to get licenses and their degrees, a practice introduced in Ethiopia and was implemented for more than ten years as part of the physician retention strategy of the country.

This was preceded by a protest of medical interns from Jimma University demanding several issues: one of which being employment following graduation and the right to get their Degrees. Some of the slogans read "secure our jobs or give us our medical licenses". There were also similar Protests by medical interns of Arsi University, which, unfortunately ended with injuries of several students in the hands of the police. A more coordinated protest demonstrations were also held in multiple cities and medical university campuses on April 22.

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