150,000 health experts to lift foreign remittance

PORTAL INAUGURATED TO ENSURE PROPER RECRUITMENT

Pakistan will provide more than 150,000 health professionals to UK in a bid to boost foreign remittance to the country.

Recently, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between AFCO-Private Limited, Pakistan, a Pakistani employment recruitment bureau and the MMC-Health Care Limited, UK for the new recruitment process. The agreement will help provide more than 150,000 medical sector jobs including 80,000 to 10,0000 nurses, 25000 doctors, 10,000 pharmacists and 20,000 allied paramedics to the UK.

These jobs are available for Pakistani medical professionals in the post-Brexit scenario. Following the MoU, an Overseas Job Creation Portal was inaugurated at the Punjab Governor’s House recently which would help ensure a proper mechanism by inviting Pakistani medical professionals to avail the opportunity.

Increase volume

Governor Punjab, Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar during the formal launch of this portal had said the recruitment of the doctors, nurses and paramedical staff would contribute to the sustainable socioeconomic development of both the countries, which would help increase the volume of the foreign remittances. Punjab Governor assured to adopt General Practitioner (GP) system of the National Health Service (NHS) in UK and lowcost health care and subsidised medication to the remote area residents would be ensured.

Regarding the opportunity to avail the post Brexit employment, the AFCO Private Limited chairman Answer Farooq in a statement said that the recruitment of the required medical staff from Pakistan was one of the top-20 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).