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Pakistan To Provide More Than 150000 Health Professionals To UK To Boost Foreign Remittance
Pakistan To Provide More Than 150000 Health Professionals To UK To Boost Foreign Remittance
Pakistan To Provide More Than 150000 Health Professionals To UK To Boost Foreign Remittance
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Pakistan intends to send more than 150,000 health professionals to UK Image Credit:
LAHORE: Pakistan will provide more than 150,000 health professionals to UK in a bid
to boost foreign remittance to the country.
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.
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
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General Practitioner (GP) system of the National Health Service (NHS) in UK and low-
cost health care and subsidised medication to the remote area residents would be
ensured.
Foreign remittance
According to a document of Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource
Development, the highest recorded remittances in a month since May 2019, Overseas
Pakistani workers remitted US$2.097 billion in December 2019 as compared to
US$1.819 billion during November 2019. On month-to-month basis, the remittances
increased by US$277.56 million in December, with a growth of 15.25 per cent, the
document said.
State Bank of Pakistan’s quarterly report showed that Pakistani migrant workers in the
US sent home US$2.004 billion in July-January during fiscal year 2019, compared with
US$1.504 billion in the same period of the previous year.
Expectations
According to the report, the expected volume of the remittances to Pakistan in 2020
would reach between US$22.8 billion and US$23.3 billion, while in 2021 the
remittances volume is expected to be between US$23.9 billion to US$24.4 billion. One
of the important recommendations of the report was the strengthening of the efforts to
increase remittances by enhancing the skill levels of Pakistan’s labour force.
The Pakistan Migration Report 2020 analyses that the overseas migration from
Pakistan and the resulting remittances have a significant impact on the economy of the
country especially on employment and labour market, the report added.
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