To attract doctors to work in rural areas most identified good salary ("much more than in Kathmandu") and infrastructure/facilities (well-equipped and served facility and a good team because the "doctor can't do it alone") as key factors.
Interview data identified low salaries, unemployment, poor working conditions, insufficient postgraduate education, and a lack of professional autonomy in Nepal as reasons for their intention to migrate.
The recruiters identified starting salaries well above entry level and promised help with lifelong counseling and accreditation for specialized work.
Similarly, studies done in Fiji, Cambodia and North Vietnam have identified low salaries as a common reason for job dissatisfaction among health-care workers [ 13, 49].
However, in Ghana, health workers overwhelmingly identified low salaries as the main source of dissatisfaction on an interviewer-administered questionnaire [ 38].
Countries such as Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand have identified low salaries as a major reason for job dissatisfaction and/or migration among health workers [ 4, 11- 15, 16, 16].
All midwives responsible for ANC at the CHS associated with FilaBavi (n = 21) and eight medical doctors and assistant physicians were identified using the salary list (N = 29).
For example, health workers in Ghana overwhelmingly identify low salaries as the main source of dissatisfaction on an interviewer-administered questionnaire [ 29].
We identified the average salaries of individuals and used the average time units to calculate the cost of manpower.
Over a quarter of Lithuanian pharmacists surveyed in a 2007 study planed to migrate to other European countries, with the main reasons identified as better salaries, quality of life and professional opportunities [ 20].
