Tag Archives: Pakistan

Dear Editor, There has been much news recently regarding the fate of 200-plus doctors from India and Pakistan who arrived in 2011 to bolster the health service after a projected shortage of doctors.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Open letter to Dr James Reilly, Minister for Health; Andrew Condon, General Manager, Office of Human Resources, HSE; and Philip Brady, Head of Registration, Medical Council.

Dr Amin A Muhammad, Professor of Psychiatry at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, returned to Pakistan recently were he heard of the issues facing doctors contemplating coming to work in Ireland.

Dear Editor, There has been much discussion, debate and concern expressed over the recent recruitment drive for NCHDs from Pakistan and India, in terms of the quality of the candidates, but a lot of this concern has been misplaced.

Far from resolving our staffing crisis, Dr Mick Molloy believes the debacle over the HSE’s recent NCHD recruitment drive in India and Pakistan has created another one altogether.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

Dear Editor, I want to draw attention to what I see as the autocracy of the HSE.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.