The problem is now about availability of positions, distribution, and retention of the workforce in rural areas [ 7].
Inadequate numbers of skilled providers can be addressed by training more midwives and innovative context-based strategies to ensure retention of skilled workforce in challenging settings [ 23, 49].
Without sufficient financial and management investment from the governments, the retention of the workforce and quality public health services is not sustainable.
In all, investors have backed hundreds of entrepreneurs looking at ways to solve the recruiting, hiring and retention problems that bedevil the creation and retention of a modern workforce.
This is in turn may increase the productivity and retention of the health workforce.
Despite concerted efforts, there are ongoing issues in the recruitment and retention of this diverse workforce.
Improving the retention of the health workforce in rural and remote areas is of concern for all countries worldwide [ 1].
Adopting the simple strategies retention of such health workforce, which is often low, could be immensely improved.
These reports identify retention of the health workforce as the keystone for the infrastructure of public health administration agencies.
Consideration of these issues is important as retention of the healthcare workforce is recognised as a major challenge problem by planners and policy makers [ 1, 46, 47].
