Task-shifting and the recruitment and retention of eye care workers in under-served areas: a qualitative study of optometrists' motivation in Ghana and Scotland.

One optometrist described the provision of equipment as a highly significant factor in their motivation whether to accept a rural posting or not: If I had a job offer in a rural area, I think the first thing that I was going to consider was whether instrumentations in the set-up that I was going to use, the place actually meets the standard... nothing was (more of) a challenge to me than having the adequate instrument to be able to support the services that I gave... if somebody is posted into an empty room that is very, very quite discouraging – Participant 15, Ghana What should motivate you is having the needed equipment to work with.

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