UK ‘crippling Africa healthcare’
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- UK ‘crippling Africa healthcare’
- He kept British films alive
- I can still taste the picnics of my childhood
- RAMI KHOURI
- BBC News Magazine
UK ‘crippling Africa healthcare’
BBC News – May 27, 2005
With the UK taking over the chair of the G8 in July, there is an ideal opportunity to stop the brain drain from poor to rich countries, they said. The UK should encourage more home-grown doctors and limit the time period that overseas recruits can train and work in the country, they told the Lancet. Financially compensating nations for lost staff will not work, they warned. Brain drainNor will strategies that split the training of healthcare staff between developed and developing countries, according to Dr John Eastwood and his colleagues from St George’s Medical School in London…
Nearly a third of the doctors practising in the UK were trained overseas. In comparison, only 5% of doctors in Germany and France are not home grown. Dr Edwin Borman, chairman of the BMA’s International Committee, said: “Shortages of doctors and nurses are having a devastating effect in the developing world. “Sub-Saharan Africa alone needs around a million more healthcare workers, and unless the situation improves drastically rates of HIV will spiral, disability from childhood disease will rise, and thousands more lives will be lost.
He kept British films alive
Telegraph.co.uk – May 27, 2005
Merchant Ivory’s films were invariably among them. Not that this endeared Merchant Ivory to our industry. In Soho, producers unable to get films financed complained that these interlopers were monopolising funds that should rightly have been allotted to home-grown movie-makers. He did this by keeping costs ruthlessly low. Visiting the set of The Remains of the Day, I was greeted effusively by Merchant, who had a wily, lofty charm.
I can still taste the picnics of my childhood
Christian Science Monitor – May 27, 2005
We drank diluted Kia-Ora orange drink (this postwar brand’s connection with real oranges was not what you’d call intimate, but we liked it). We munched slices of succulent ham smeared with fierce English mustard and sandwiched between generously buttered slices of white bread. There were burstingly ripe tomatoes (probably home-grown) that spurted messily as you tried to eat them. Mum, the world’s most efficient picnic maker, brought along a little container of salt in which to dip them. Then came the peaches. We always had peaches. For some reason they had to be scrupulously peeled before eating – a tricky and also very juicy business.
RAMI KHOURI
Globe and Mail – May 27, 2005
and security-related activities; enhancing the independence of the judiciary from executive branch influence; fostering opportunities for private think-tanks and research institutions; studying how to create a more representative parliament; and leaving the business of human-rights compliance to the courts and civil society organizations. Jordan as a democratic model for the Arab world remains an enticing prospect, but it is not yet a done deal. A lot of people, including Jordanians, are cheering for it to succeed, so that there may, indeed, be a home-grown Arab reform strategy that breeds a credible democracy. Rami Khouri, former editor of The Jordan Times, is editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star.
BBC News Magazine
BBC News – May 27, 2005
The rabbit thinks, and we agree, that home-grown vegetables cannot be beaten for taste. Ian FergusonSouthampton, UK.