Indian nurses, who may soon have to leave Britain due to its new immigration rules already have a job waiting for them back home. The health ministry has offered to take in nurses on contractual basis under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), which means they would get paid much more than what their counterparts earn in government hospitals. This will also help in overcoming the 2.4 million shortage of nurses in India. The new UK immigration rule, which intends to cap the number of migrants living there, will lead to almost 7,000 overseas nurses being sent home by 2020, majority of which will be from India.
C K Mishra, additional secretary in the health ministry said, "Doctors are paid higher in the private sector but nurses have higher pay in the public sector. We will soon start becoming proactive in getting them back to India". "If they work under the NRHM, we can play around…
