Cape Verde

This video clip is 6 minutes and 58 seconds and provides information on the training and retention of health workers in Cape Verde. The majority of the training is done abroad due to poor medical educational facilities in country, and the video communicates the policies and programs Cape Verde has used to ensure trained doctors return to the country as well as how they ensure deployment of doctors to rural areas.

Coping strategies have, in some countries, become so prevalent that it has been widely assumed that the very notion of civil services ethos has completely – and possibly irreversibly – disappeared. This paper describes the importance and the nature of pilfering of drugs by health staff in Mozambique and Cape Verde, as perceived by health professionals from these countries. Their opinions provide pointers as to how to tackle these problems. [from abstract]