In order to alleviate the nursing shortage in Germany, will the Minister of health, Jens Spahn Finance the training abroad. In the concerned Western Balkan countries, there are for his Initiative little enthusiasm.
Joana Bocaj is 25 years old. Since three years she works as a nurse in the city of Vlora in South of Albania. If it were up to her, then not for long. She is preparing to leave Albania and a new life in Düsseldorf to start. You heard from this city of another colleague. “I think I’m going to find in Germany for a better life and a better future. We have low salaries, and no one appreciates our work. Therefore, I would like to live and work there.”
In Düsseldorf you will be welcome. The long-neglected Problem of staff shortages in the care sector in Germany has long since arrived at the highest political level, According to the coalition agreement, nationwide 8.000 additional nurses are to be set. Meanwhile, the number has been corrected even to the top, now the talk is of a minimum of 13,000 new nurses.
The Reservoir of the nurses
However, this will not be enough, because the reality is much more dramatic: Because of the understaffing in nursing facilities many nursing home residents cannot be cared for adequately at present to 36,000 positions are vacant, 15,000 are in nursing homes. Much greater the need for nurses in the context of the private home care is – and will continue to grow in future: The number of people using such services is expected to rise, according to forecasts up to the year 2060 from the current level of 2.86 million to 4.5 million.
Jens Spahn wants to let nurses train abroad
Now the Federal Minister of health, Jens Spahn (CDU) has submitted a proposal, as could be the situation fairly. He proposes that the required skilled workers abroad for care in Germany for training. “From the budget Committee, we have once more a total of nine million euros,” said Spahn in a newspaper interview on Thursday.
With the money a cooperation partner for nursing schools could be abroad found. The future professionals, the idea of the Federal Minister, should learn in your home country. “Ideally, you should be able to start with the end of the training in Germany, their work,” says Spahn. As potential countries for such cooperation, he cited Kosovo, Macedonia, the Philippines, and Cuba.
Sponsored Depopulation
In the concerned Western Balkan countries, the Initiative has previously met. The Macedonian authorities emphasise that such projects would promote the out-migration of young, agile and well-trained people out of the country. The proposed cooperation means in practice that Germany forms only the necessary skilled workers in a country, so that these leave the country and then for always. In a Situation in which the Migration from Macedonia and other countries in the Region is already alarming, such a solution for the countries concerned, nothing Positive.
The care system in Germany is dependent on foreign nurses
That this danger is real, also shows a recent study by the non-profit organization “Together for life” and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Albania. It has been shown that 78 percent of Doctors want to leave Albania, and 24 percent want to do that immediately. You are the most important reasons for this: Lack of professionalism in the workplace, inadequate compensation and poor working conditions.
Escape the lack of prospects
It looks similar in other Western Balkan countries. In Serbia, Bosnia/Herzegovina or Kosovo, tens of thousands of sitting on Packed suitcases, and wait for the first best opportunity to leave your home. Before the competent consulates are long queues of people trying to get a work visa form the day-to-day, many language schools are overcrowded and some
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now offer English courses to 23 PM. And placement agencies are earning currently a Golden nose: For the placement of a nurse you get from some German hospitals up to € 5,000 bonus – the Agency fee to pay, of course, the job seeker.
Also in Croatia, a EU-country and, therefore, without restrictions to the free movement of workers, meanwhile, are whole stretches of land depopulated. To many it is not just the higher salaries – a major role in the social and political conditions in their countries and a General lack of prospects play.
German Winner
From the German point of view, such a work means migration double profit: on the one hand, one can find much-needed skilled workers, on the other hand, their training costs almost nothing, or only a little. So it is not surprising that diakonia President Ulrich Lily welcomes the Initiative of the Minister of health, enhanced training of nursing staff in Non-EU countries. “There’s no way around it, to qualify themselves, in Africa, the far East or in Eastern Europe,” he says. As the sponsors of training initiatives can imagine Lily in addition to government Agencies and NGOs, or diaconal institutions. The advantage is obvious: “Ready-trained forces would have a recognized degree, if you come to Germany.”
The Macedonian Minister of health, Venko Filipce, wants to let the nurses rotate
It looks different from the perspective of the Brain-drain countries. Fatmir Brahimaj, President of the Albanian chamber of Physicians, does not know that his country has on an unprotected labour market, no real Chance: “I know where I can find a casket full of Gold, to stop this phenomenon. The working conditions abroad are mainly the reason why the Albanian Doctors want to leave the country.”
Principle of rotation and regional solution
In the Macedonian Ministry of health have developed a proposal could be a Win-Win solution. Skopje proposes to establish the cooperation with Germany, a principle of rotation. Accordingly, the Doctors, nurses and care workers temporarily, for example, six month would work, in a hospital in Germany. This would improve their medical Knowledge, gain new experience and also earn money, but then you should return to Macedonia. Your home country has invested in their training would benefit from your newly acquired Knowledge.
In addition, the Macedonian Minister of health, Venko Filipce, one should seek the solution of the problem at the regional level. “Our position is that all countries in the Region together and establishing a common cooperation with Germany should speak. In this case, should it go to a rotation principle, so that people come back, too, just not the way to go,” says Filipce in a DW Statement.
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Until it so far is it will be but for the Albanian Joana Bocaj probably too late: she has now also acquired a German language diploma to be able to work in Germany. Their departure to the West.