Summary:
more-inWith private agencies barred from recruiting nurses for jobs abroad, only 10% of the earlier numbers are getting placements overseas. Earlier, about 30,000 nurses used to seek jobs overseas, mainly in the Gulf, annually. The Union government had banned private agencies from recruiting nurses for such jobs in 2015 after large-scale fraud in the process came to light. However, the government machinery is too inadequate to cater to the large numbers of nurses who wish to go abroad, say nurses. Nurses’ experience in corporate hospitals is also a parameter in the selection, said an official connected to the recruitment agencies..