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Pakistan to send 600 health workers to Kuwait

May 14, 2020

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Zulfiqar Bukhari, the prime minister's special assistant on overseas Pakistanis, talks to members of the Pakistani community in Kuwait during a video conference on May 14, 2020.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will send 600 health workers to Kuwait upon the request of the Gulf state, special assistant to the prime minister on overseas Pakistanis, Zulfiqar Bukhari, said on Thursday.

“Health workers will include nurses and doctors,” Bukhari informed during his telecon with the Pakistani community residing in Kuwait, the ministry said in its official handout.

The coronavirus pandemic has led to health emergency across the globe with medics and health workers being in high demand to help states steer through the crisis.

The PM’s aide said the move will “enhance bilateral relations” with the rich Gulf state, which was home to a large number of Pakistanis employed in different sectors.

Bukhari further said that Islamabad will repatriate 5,500 nationals stranded in Kuwait through four special flights over the next two weeks.

He said, “The data of all the repatriates who lost their jobs due to COVID-19 crisis will be available on a portal launched in June.” These unemployed returnees would be accommodated under government employment schemes, added the PM’s aide.

Bukhari said he would also talk to Kuwait’s labor minister requesting free visa extension for Pakistani labor force.

The Arabian Gulf is a preferred destination for Pakistani workers who are employed in different fields. Pakistan’s official statistics show that the work force moving to GCC countries increased by 47% in 2019 as compared to 2018.

https://www.arabnews.pk/node/1674721/pakistan
 
600 Pakistani health professionals to assist Kuwait in fight against COVID-19: SAPM
By Associated Press of Pakistan on May 15, 2020
  • The move would foster relations of both the countries, Zulfikar Bukhari said in a news release issued by the OP&HRD Ministry.
  • The country had improved its repatriation capacity and at the moment “is capable of bringing back some 12,000 Pakistanis every week."
  • The SAPM said the ministry would soon launch a portal to maintain the data of returning emigrants.

“It has been decided in principle that 600 health workers including doctors and nurses will be sent to Kuwait at the request of Kuwaiti authorities," the SAPM told to the teleconference, arranged by the OP&HRD Ministry for registering complaints of the Pakistani Diaspora in Kuwait.

The move would foster relations of both the countries, Zulfikar Bukhari said in a news release issued by the OP&HRD Ministry.

He informed the participants of virtual town hall meeting that four special flights would be operated to airlift over 5,550 stranded nationals from Kuwait in next two weeks.

The country had improved its repatriation capacity and at the moment “is capable of bringing back some 12,000 Pakistanis every week."

The SAPM said the ministry would soon launch a portal to maintain the data of returning emigrants.

They would be registered under the government's flagship projects – Kamyab Jawan Program and Hunarmand Pakistan- for employment.

Zulfikar Bukhari said he would soon contact with the labour authorities in Kuwait to ensure free extension in visas of Pakistanis.

https://www.brecorder.com/2020/05/1...assist-kuwait-in-fight-against-covid-19-sapm/
 
What Kuwaitis ?

Great thing is Pakistan is fast becoming self sufficient in making masks, PPE and ventilators and now exporting top notch doctors and nurses to other countries.
 
:pakistan: Muslims helping muslims what a great sight. i hope we don't help them as pakistaniz first we help them as muslims first even offically we are a muslim nation and them too.

while they help in kuwait i am helping here in Azad kashmir and in pakistan. tought times call for tougher resolve.
 
What a bullshit. Just yesterday we saw the news that Pakistani people were getting denied treatment in SIUT and Agha Khan in Pakistan due to lack of doctors and facilities and we are sending them to Kuwait..
 
What a bullshit. Just yesterday we saw the news that Pakistani people were getting denied treatment in SIUT and Agha Khan in Pakistan due to lack of doctors and facilities and we are sending them to Kuwait..
Its due to sindh govt
 

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