“The data are updated hourly, they are growing out of all proportion, and they clearly demonstrate how a real exodus of healthcare workers towards the Middle East could emerge in the coming months.
The latest news, which comes to us through our direct contact with international agencies specialized in the recruitment of healthcare personnel, and also confirmed by the diligent work of Prof. Foad Aodi, President of Amsi, Association of Doctors of Foreign Origin in Italy, openly highlights how the maximum availability to leave from here to the next few weeks has now risen to 550, by professionals, in particular from Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna.
Be careful, let's be clear, availability does not mean certainty of leaving, but at the exact moment in which working conditions such as those we are about to list are proposed, and which also include support for the integration of the professional's family into the new socio-cultural reality, it becomes really difficult to say no.
They report that, in addition to the attractive offers from Saudi Arabia, destinations such as Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, are also becoming the center of interest for European healthcare professionals, especially at institutions such as Cleveland Hospital and NMC, cutting-edge private facilities where they are looking for specialized doctors and nurses, especially with previous experience in emergency rooms, general surgery, pediatrics and operating rooms, as well as years of experience in the field of cosmetic surgery, an increasingly cutting-edge micro-world in the Middle East, where the salaries of professionals are rising further”.
Thus Antonio De Palma, National President of Nursing Up.
“Faced with the many requests that come from Italian colleagues, after having spoken with Prof. Aodi, President of Amsi, Association of Doctors of Foreign Origin in Italy, who illustrated the detailed picture of the situation, and after having contacted specialized agencies in Europe, I am in Abu Dhabi from today to personally study this delicate and crucial phenomenon. continues De Palma.
Certainly, among European professionals, it is confirmed to me that Italians are the most sought after, and not only for their brilliant basic education and their skills, but above all for those human qualities, for that charisma that, they tell me, even makes them preferable to their German and French colleagues.
From our initial checks it appears that it is all true: there are currently numerous open positions, within various specialist settings, which offer a base salary of 3400 euros per month net, not a single euro less, even tax-free for an Italian nurse in the United Arab Emirates, with paid accommodation, and extra benefits, two paid trips to Italy and significant support for the eventual social integration of wife and children. From 3400 euros net you can even get up to 6 euros per month.
There is no point in hiding it, the geography of global healthcare has changed: Middle Eastern countries invest approximately 10% of their GDP in healthcare, and the gap with nations like ours, organizationally speaking, risks becoming unbridgeable”, concludes De Palma.
Article published on 8 September 2023 - 17:30
