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The response from the Journal and the public press ,to the decision of the Saudi governments decision to withdraw their students from our post grad programs,is astounding. The editors make it sound like the demise of health care in our country. Our Prime Minister after all,was simply telling the truth.Saudi Arabia is a country with a terrible human rights record.Women are second class citizens,There are no churches or synagogues there,gays are executed,and the country is destroying a neighbor state,and the government it a well known support of terror activities. Are we now in the position of not being able to allowed to comment about another country when they send their students here? Perhaps,there will now be openings for Canadian grads for positions in our post grad efforts? I think the CMAJ should reassure the public that our health care system will be intact,despite the absence of Saudinstudents!
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People exposed to the Saudi Arabian trainees speak often of the individual's positive qualities. However, the bigger picture is essential to note, especially amid tweets of Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ms. Chrystia Freeland. Saudi Arabia is a hereditary dictatorship that continues to lead a genocide in Yemen that has resulted in over 10,000 deaths. Human Rights Watch notes: "(in 2017) Saudi authorities continued their arbitrary arrests, trials, and convictions of peaceful dissidents. Dozens of human rights defenders and activists continued to serve long prison sentences...Authorities continued to discriminate against women and religious minorities." It is no wonder that Mr. Freeland spoke of the human rights abuses of the Saudi regime. One might wonder why Canadian universities accept trainees from such a repressive regime at all. Between 1960s and 1980s, an academic boycott of South Africa (supported by the United Nations) was a critical component of a series of boycotts that ultimately led to the fall of the racist regime. Perhaps refocusing on the "bigger picture"will lead to the superior outcome- universities finding alternative sources of funding to genocidal dictatorships that happen to give programs enough hush money to look away.
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Poor planning and managerial incompetence pervades Canadian health care and no less so than in managing their manpower needs.
Many provinces rely on swathes of immigrant doctors to provide care for Canadians, as those in charge are unable to fill the necessary positions with their own graduates.
The Canadian Government, among others, are responsible for many countries having fallen into chaos, genocide, corruption and mismanagement, because of Canadian interference, moralising, stupidity and ignorance.
I for one, would still be ministering to the needs of my people, if Canada had kept its nose out of where it didn't belong.Competing Interests: None declared. - Page navigation anchor for RE: Withdrawal of Saudi trainees exposes vulnerability of Canadian health careRE: Withdrawal of Saudi trainees exposes vulnerability of Canadian health care
How did this happen, who set this up and what authority let this happen, to leave Canada so utterly dependent on such large numbers of interns from another country of an essential profession that when they are withdrawn we cannot fill the void?
And, what’s wrong with the system that we are short 1,000 home-grown students, such that we have to go abroad to fill enough seats for subsequent residents in our hospitals?
This may be causing grief in the short term but the exposure just might resolve something that shouldn't never have happened.Competing Interests: None declared.