Latvia, Poland, and the Czech Republic are recruiting Ukrainian nurses to care for their fast aging populations.

Thursday, March 28, 2019
Latvia, Poland, and the Czech Republic are recruiting Ukrainian nurses to care for their fast aging populations.

Latvia, Poland, and the Czech Republic are recruiting Ukrainian nurses to care for their fast aging populations. The Czech embassy in Kyiv is fast-tracking work permits for nurses. In Riga, Ilze Aizsilniece, head Latvia’s Medical Association, tells The Baltic Times she advocates importing nurses from Belarus and Ukraine and teaching them ‘basic Latvian.’ In Poland, Katarzyna Kowalska of the Digital Association of Nurses, warns Gazeta Wyborcza: “Many nurses will reach retirement age in a year or two, and then things will snowball…There will be a lack that we won’t be able to fill.”

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