Nursing shortfalls in Asia as staff head overseas | DW News

Kindly don't fool them... Tax is very high.... At the end they don't have a savings

Filipinos flexible in all areas of life, cultures, weather, mingle with strangers, work load,

simply ...they want low wage slaves for their work...

We dont have shortage of nurses in Philippines. The problem is that we are not compensated fairly

Germany should stop fooling and exploiting these foreign workers. Those who had gone through it know how horrible their employment and immigration beureucracy are!
Slow, incompetent, undigitized, moody and unfriendly mitarbeiter! Yet, if you make a tiny mistake that you are not aware of, the officer would not hesitate to take your words out of context and toss it like they want, so they can fine you and suck your earning!

As long as Germany uses German in the health care sector, there will be shortfalls!

Quality not the same.

Asians will definitely not cause riots like they do in France

Kerala is a good source

@Mr. Gotinga: Salary levels of USD 5000 to 6000 (gross) are entirely unlikely for any nurse in Germany (not even half that is realistic!) but possible for highly experienced healthcare professionals in the UAE, so I heard. EUR 1500 to 2000 (gros) per month is more realistic in Germany. Deduct then 50 to 70% of taxes and social insurances BEFORE the professionals start spending for monthly rent and food and other daily necessities ... where those will quickly find out that prices are MUCH higher than in the Philippines. For Germany it is a story that repeats itself since the 1960ties. The reasons now and back then remain the same. I am quite clear about this topic, because my mother (now 79 years of age) came to Germany in the 1960ties for the exact same reasons.

Why does Germany always try to get more cheap workforce from anywhere rather than giving the workforce that’s there the money they deserve. Btw how much do nurses earn in Germany. I know some in America and Canada who earn 100.000 a year and more.

Nurses must be paid much much much more!

Why not get nurses from Africa to fill their void instead of going to Asian?

In the beginning of the piece you state that there is a surplus of trained nurses, but at the four minute mark, you have a guest on that says there is a shortage... which is it? This piece speaks out of both sides of its mouth... hard to get a read on a topic when the presenter says two opposite things

My sister, a nurse who went to your country as a young mother at the age of 23, leaving her 8mos old son to work in one of your nursing homes. Her husband was denied visa so their marriage got annulled from being apart from each other for long. My sister married again after a while. The son grew up in the Philippines. Around 5 years ago, his mom applied for a visa for him so he can spend time taking care of her since she got very ill (near death). He is employed in the Philippines and in his late twenties. He is the only child of my sister. The German embassy denied him visa (twice). My sister has a house and living with her husband who owns his own store business. You welcome illegal immigrants yet you deny entry of loved ones of a tax paying worker who took care of your sick and elderlies! You destroy families and won’t even allow a son to go to your country to take care of his mom when sick?! Filipino nurses, if you are watching this and happen to read this, be wise! Why go to a country who has no regard for you? This still infuriates us until now. We told my sister to retire in the Philippines instead and leave Germany for good, which they eventually will!

And oh! According to my sister, she was told that it is the German embassy in the Philippines who denied the visa and not them. What kind of… You therefore conclude!

And to those nurses already working there, i hope you will not experience the same fate as my my sister’s.

I'm a proud Filipino nurse working for the Philippines Department of Health for now I have no plans of leaving my country for greener pastures but when my kids are already in their legal age planning to migrate abroad with my wife and practice my career as a nurse. I dream to travel to Germany and Europe.Filipino nurses are better based on their education, experience, and adaptibility to western culture, language and religion.Filipino by nature is very caring and compassionate.

Yes take all asians

I live in Germany. There's a shortage of every single thing. I can't think of one thing we have a surplus in- except rules

2011 i have graduated nursing but i was never able to practice it there because there was no job available...i studied another course for 2 years more and passed the boards just to be able to work...now i am in germany..it is my first time to work as a fully pledged nurse in my whole life.. hopefully the philippine government raises the salary of nurses and other healthcare worker not just in public institutions but also in private... those low salaries are killing health professionals' desire to stay there.

I work as a nurse in the philipiines in Private institution for 5 yrs. My salarywas way below average of 170 euro per month. Plus demanding work esp. From patients and folks.sad to say Filipinos think nurses only Doctors Assistant or "hospital maid" we dnt deserve this kind of treatment. As here in Germany, we are respected by our colleagues, doctors and patients.

Where is German doctors, nurses and engineers, where are Asians? Did Germans get quality? Asians produce quantity only and no quality. Ask polish people to help Germans, they are humble, polite and work hard to earn their money.

Japan is also trying to recruit nurses from Indonesia.

Lack of medical personnel seems to be common in any country in the world.
It is highly likely that the diplomatic war to secure medical personnel will intensify.

Agency nurses hours are guaranteed. Full-time employees hours are not. If patient "ratios" don't add up, you may now be asked to "flex out" and take PTO to save on labor costs. That guarantees you won't be able to take holidays, or at worst, be unable to make enough money to be able to live. These would be long-term residents of the area who have property, family, and established lives in the area vs a Phillipino who can barely speak English making $500 per month just to save a buck.
Why would nurses be loyal to ANY hospital the way were being treated now? Why wouldn't we all go to travel nursing?

This Nurses has , to Demand Germany to Give them free accommodation because their own county is facing Nurses Shortage. What Germany Can offer to them? European Lifestyle😀. Germany going to Snatch their Money with Rent.

Can't young Germans or Europeans be steered in the direction of this occupation and trained for the jobs? Real problem here is that corporation & business entities are perpetually looking for cheaper labor, to maximize their profits. So they make the excuse native born workers don't want (fill in job) or aren't qualified for them, to pay lower wages by importing immigrants. Happens in most European countries, the U.S. and Canada as well. Literally at the expense of native born citizens, who are not being utilized to fill whatever shortfalls supposedly exist.

DW, that reporter from the Philippines should be replaced. As a Filipino, I'm embarrassed by his English.

They die out already, where asia will give you , even asian they themselves don't have , go to France or Britain you will get it , damn wicked people

maybe there wouldn't be a shortage of careworkers if germany wasn't trying to import the whole middle east

why don't take from India with 1.4 billion people and more educated? Probably Hindutva backwardness doesn't fit in Germany.

the UK has been fishing nurses from the philippines for about 30 years..and the US has been hiring nurses for 50 years..

Kerala nurses can fill the gap

Or are they outsourcing for cheaper labor?

There is no shortage of nurses in the Philippines. I have met many people that are working in unrelated fields because they cannot find work.

The government Healthcare bodies are just too cheap to train them after graduation.

Back to slavery

Germany, its been nice knowing you. Good luck watching your industry fold like a deck of cards.
The best part is, when you fold the EU will follow

Germany , Unfortunately you are "cooked"
The ECB has sold you guys down the drain......Good luck with the higher inflation thats coming your way
But please send m ore of your taxes to the Ukraine

Shame of Europeans and Americans!

the majority of nurses are women and at least they are receiving decent salaries with benefits, its good opportunities and they don't have to become maids in the middle east

Whole world is facing workers shortage and then there is my country India full of unemployed people. If you wanna work in India salaries are so low bcz they can find 100 people for 1 vacancy 😂 that's why they don't want to pay good salary.

All countries are doing this and will deplete poorer countries.

No no no. Stay away from that. No good!

ROFL

The US did not need the flood of immigrants from south of the border but they got them anyway and has now absorbed just about all of the available immigrants from the Americas (that is amazing). All of those countries the young people left are now hurting for working age people leaving those nation's futures in jeopardy. Europe's nations have bad demographics and by 2030 most European social welfare systems will start becoming unsustainable without raising taxes, raising retirement ages and reducing benefits. My point is there are not enough immigrants in the world to solve every country's demographic problems. Taking the young of other countries doesn't really solve the problem, it just pushes the inevitable down the road.

Greedy Europeans, stealing workers.

german gone case

Isn't Germany regretting their last outsource of labor that produced a sizable population that continually votes in elections overseas that go against the interest of Germany? Lol get Spanish nurses. Dime a dozen.

Have more children germans!!

grow fast... sleep well... with two kegs and a zbrasovichka....

German language,racism and high taxes 😢