{"id":273936,"date":"2019-04-24T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=2f29d5a9481755c6f5b604a1323d9474"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:22:45","slug":"flood-and-retain-an-op-ed-on-ethiopias-doctor-pipeline-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273936","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFlood and retain\u201d: an op-ed on Ethiopia\u2019s doctor pipeline gone wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeon Biniam Ewnte wrote in Addis Standard about Ethiopia\u2019s <strong>\u201cflood and retain\u201d<\/strong> medical training strategy, warning that flooding universities with medical students without jobs, mentorship, and decent posts was producing unemployed physicians and bitter graduates.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-325623\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Frontline-Doctors.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u201cFlood and retain\u201d: an op-ed on Ethiopia\u2019s doctor pipeline gone wrong\" \/>\n<p>The April 2019 op-ed landed as interns protested across cities. Training quantity without labor planning is not a health strategy. It is a political slogan with white coats.<\/p>\n<p>Under Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government, youth unemployment and professional emigration kept colliding with speeches about human capital. Doctors became both status symbols and surplus labor.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as policy reference, the flood-and-retain critique still explains today\u2019s shortages in rural posts and oversupply of frustrated graduates. The future of Ethiopian doctors was never only about enrollment numbers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/addisstandard.com\/op-ed-the-flood-and-retain-strategy-and-the-future-of-ethiopian-doctors\/\">Addis Standard<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op-ed: The \u201cflood and retain\u201d strategy and the future of Ethiopian Doctors&nbsp;&nbsp;addisstandard.comBiniam Ewnte (MD, General Surgeon), For Addis Standard. Addis Abeba, April 24\/2019 \u2013 Recently a group of newly graduated Physicians who are unemploye&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":325623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Frontline-Doctors.jpg?fit=720%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19gk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601057,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273936\/revisions\/601057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}