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Indians among 30,000 nurses in Britain facing expulsion
London, June 22
As many as 30,000 overseas nurses will be facing the axe under British Prime Minister David Cameron's new immigration laws.
According
to Cameron's new immigration laws, workers recruited from outside of
the European Union (EU) since 2011 and earning less than 35,000 pounds
annually ($55,503) even after six years of employment will have to
return home. The laws will be enforced from 2017.
Indian staff nurse, Sandeep Duggani, 29, is also a victim of the new immigration laws, the Mirror online reported.
Duggani,
who started working in an Intensive Care Unit at the National Health
Services (NHS) in 2011, gets 25,000 pounds annually. Sandeep did a
nursing degree in Belgaum city, in the Indian state of Karnataka, and
will be on his way home in 2017.
His wife Pratika, also a qualified nurse from India, is just starting her NHS career and would be hit by the new rules in 2021.
He said it would be impossible to increase his pay to 35,000 pounds before the cut-off date.
"It
was always my dream when I came to this country to work in the NHS. My
father is really very proud that I work in the NHS, because in India,
the NHS is very famous," Sandeep said adding that, despite the new
rules, NHS trusts are still recruiting nurses from India.
"It's
very sad. I have done all these training courses and now, after six
years, I have to go back. But it's not just me. There are thousands of
nurses going to be affected by this," he added.