Abstract:
Health is not an isolated issue because the government is the
regulating body that handles it. Thus, there is politics in the issue of health.
Various health issues are products of the politics behind them. This is what
this study aims to establish and prove.
The problem on the unabated exodus of health professionals does
not stem merely from economic factors but rather it is an interplay of
different factors such as socio-cultural and even political.
This study, however, did not look at the downside. Instead it
concentrated on the positive aspect, on why doctors prefer to stay and
serve the country in the light of the prevalent culture of migration. This
explored various reasons and motivations behind their stay and identified
the pull factors that contribute to this and enumerate incentives they
received.
This was linked to the government’s role in this issue, as a regulating
body that facilitates and handles this sector. This is to pave way for the
different lapses to be identified in order to come up with recommendations
to regulate the number of those leaving the country or eventually halt
exportation of health professionals and prevent the eventual collapse of
the health care system.
