Two words: Brain drain.

I recently read an article from a Philippine news site and found out that few hospitals in our country are already hiring Nepalese doctors to fill in the vacancies left out by doctors who flew to the USA for "greener pastures".

What does this imply? Does this mean our own people are turning their backs away from their homeland for survival? Logical.

"A hospital in the eastern Philippines is opening up its residency program to doctors from impoverished Nepal to address a shortage of Filipino physicians, a report said Sunday." Yes, shortage of physicians and doctors. Much of our doctors have retrained to become nurses and flew away to America to receive a higher pay.

But is this news something sad or something to be happy about? Personally-speaking, I'd say there is something good as well as something bad about this news. So the bad part first. Of course it is a shame to say we're getting doctors from another country just because our very own are leaving for a better life. It puts a big question mark on the faces of the nationalist people. Some even found this alarming. But can these doctors be blamed? I don't think so. If life is better here at home, they wouldn't go running away. They would stay if they don't need to go out. So who's to blame? The government?

The good thing is that we have opened up our hospitality to these Nepalese professionals. Nepal is "impoverished" according to that news article. I don't mean to make it sound like we are doing this for pure goodwill and that Nepal people need us. What I meant is that Philippines could be a good training ground for these people. At the same time, they also could help the medical world. I have met few Nepalese ladies in Hong Kong and they really look just like Filipinos. There is no problem in having Nepalese people work in our country. They do well in Hong Kong.

So where does this end? Brain drain is very inevitable now that our living here in the country is getting harder. Even with the recession in the USA, some people still say life is better there compared to life here. Let us just hope the standing of our country will soon become stable.

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