Breaking: Ghana and Jamaica Sign Deal to Deploy Specialist Healthcare Workers

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]The governments of Ghana and Jamaica will this afternoon sign a memorandum of understanding to facilitate the cross-border recruitment and training of specialist healthcare workers. The partnership comes in response to severe workforce shortages in Jamaica, where the mass migration of healthcare workers to high-income destination countries has strained public health facilities. The agreement will see Ghanaian health personnel deployed in high-demand specialty fields, including critical intensive care, oncology, pediatrics, and midwifery. Speaking at a preliminary engagement ahead of the signing, Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu indicated that the partnership creates a crucial framework to stabilize the workforce without compromising local standards.

[00:00:44]The agreement is expected to facilitate the ethical recruitment and deployment of Ghanaian health professionals to Jamaica, strengthen healthcare workforce capacity in Jamaica, create employment opportunities, and professional exposure for Ghanaian health workers, promote skills exchange and knowledge transfer between both countries, and deepen cooperation and health system strengthening.

[00:01:12]Ghana remains committed to ensuring that health workforce mobility is conducted within internationally accepted ethical recruitment recruitment principles and in a manner that protects the interests of both countries.

[00:01:31]We appreciate Jamaica's commitment to fair labor practices, decent working conditions, professional development opportunities, mutual respect and partnership.

[00:01:44]And as we proceed, the implementation of the agreement must continue to prioritize worker welfare, skill development, professional integration, continuous bilateral engagement.

[00:01:59]integration continuous bilateral engagement.