A rural village in Western Australia has offered a large sum of money, amounting to 800k thaousnd dollar (Aus$), and a luxurious house fully equipped with medical tools and equipment for everyone who accepts work in the village, according to the Australian news tv , abc.net.au. This offer is very tempting until someone accepts the job in this vacancy.
This small town has no general practitioner, as the only doctor who used to live in the village left months ago. This small city is located 165 kilometers east of Perth, and like many rural communities and relatively remote villages across Australia, they have a shortage of some jobs within the health sector, so they consider the lack of doctors to be abnormal and must be remedied quickly and a doctor is brought in to fill the job vacancy.
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In this village, there are about 600 people / residents, who are trying by all means to bring in workers in the profession of doctors and nurses, and to accept work in the town. As they feel depressed after hearing news from a neighboring village to them from the north that it has stopped receiving any surgeries, after they were unable to find a doctor and his assistants.
The local government in Quairading Shire, Australia is also offering a further financial incentive of 8900 $Aus if you stay as a doctor for two years, and the amount will increase to $14,000 if you stay for five additional years in the village.
Quairading Shire chief Peter Smith said the council "will not stand by when the community has such an urgent need and will bring medical staff to the village".
He added, "If they don't have a doctor, the village won't have a medical clinic, so they won't have a hospital, and it won't have a therapist or a chemist, so people will start leaving."
According to some popular reports and news from the Australian Medical Association, Australia is expected to face a shortage of 10,000 general practitioners by 2031.
Rural communities and villages far from the city centers in Australia experienced a great shortage of doctors and nurses, and despite attractive job offers and benefits, many cities failed to attract the medical professionals they needed to come and work in their villages.
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