A finite resource: as Australia recruits overseas health workers, their home nations bear the cost

• Australia is eager to recruit health workers from outside the country amidst the global crisis for healthcare personnel due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Many medical professionals prefer to be employed in Australia with its better pay and working conditions.
• Most of the health workers are migrating from Ireland and UK.
• However, the international recruitment drives are likely to risk inequalities predating the pandemic.