Maldives will recruit 225 doctors from Bangladesh for its public hospitals.
“The process is ongoing to send doctors over as per the demand of the Maldives Directorate of Health Services,” Mohammad Zahidul Islam, general manager of Bangladesh Overseas Employment Services Limited (BOESL), told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
BOESL officials said an interested doctor would have to spend Tk 60,000 as service charge. After being recruited, they would get Tk 1,50,000 as salary every month.
They said the necessary documents of the interested doctors have already been sent to the Maldives Directorate of Health Services, and the doctors will be interviewed via Skype.
BOESL had taken an initiative to send around 50 doctors and 100 nurses to Oman, but only five doctors could be sent to the island state. BOESL General Manager Zahid said an Oman-based outsourcing company has been mediating the recruitment, stating, “Whenever the company gets an offer for the doctors and nurses, it will inform us.”