According to a CNN report, Europe will face a shortage of 1 million health professionals and US will have 1.2 million job openings for nurses by 2020.

Pakistan government, health institutes, medical colleges and concerned ministries must get together and plan for the future. Male and female nurses
should be trained under the umbrella of reputed hospitals like Shifa, Shaukat Khanum etc so that they are good enough to serve in foreign
hospitals. Long-term care for senior citizens should be taught because there is great demand for this job in the West.

Selected nurses should be given special courses to speak fluently in English and one other European language like French or German. This can create
tremendous work opportunities for our young people abroad.

China and India have already started working on it. We have to take advantage of Europe’s demand for health care professionals and start training our youth now.