Inside the Global Nursing Trade

A Deeper Exploration of Nursing for Orb's Migration Feature, Excess Baggage

An Investigative Report By: Aurora Almendral, Journalist, Email, Pierre Kattar, Journalist, Email, and Alex Park, Journalist, Email

 

In the last decade, there's been a rapid increase in the migration of health professionals. Nurses from developing countries are crossing the globe to fill intensifying shortages — in the United States, Mexico and much of Europe. No country in the world sends more nurses to work abroad than the Philippines. From a Finnish language class in Manila to the halls of a Helsinki hospital, we find out what's lost when a skilled worker migrates to another country, and what can be done about it. —7 minutes, 17 seconds

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