Canada recruitment desk in Bengaluru to hire Indian nurses for a Canadian province that faces acute labour shortages in its healthcare sector
Indian-origin health official, Rahul Parayil Girijappan, Director of Critical Care Services with Central Health in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) province, is part of a visiting team that is setting up a recruitment desk in Bengaluru to hire Indian nurses for a Canadian province that faces acute labour shortages in its healthcare sector.
Girijappan met graduate nurses who have the academic credentials to qualify for licenses in Canada. “I am coming to India after three years. I am very much excited to be part of this initiative,” Girijappan, a graduate from the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science in Bengaluru, had told IANS.
Before moving to NL in 2010, he worked as a permanent full-time staff nurse at Grace Medical Centre in India for two years. “As a leader in the organisation, I know the operational challenges in the system very clearly. We need resources to support the system and robust our workforce, and I hope we can get enough to fill the gaps and meet our demands,” Girijappan told IANS in an email interview.
After the Philippines, India ranks second in the number of nurses working abroad for brighter job opportunities, better salaries and other benefits
Girijappan will convince nurses in India that NL is the right place for them to advance as healthcare providers and individuals. He said that he had moved to the province with “mixed emotions”. With most of his friends settled in Canada’s prairie provinces, Girijappan wanted to join them, but the friendly, warm and welcoming nature of the people made him stay back.
He currently lives in Grand Falls-Windsor with his wife and two children. His wife is also a registered nurse with Central Health.
Girijappan and his team held a series of meetings last month with officials at St Martha’s College of Nursing, a training institution established in 1933. They also visited the East West Group of Institutions campus in Bengaluru, where a presentation on health employment opportunities was delivered to more than 100 final-year nursing students.
Indian government data showed a sharp rise in the demand for Indian nurses post-Covid from several countries like Ireland, Malta, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, the UK and Belgium.
After the Philippines, India ranks second in the number of nurses working abroad for brighter job opportunities, better salaries and other benefits.
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