This got brought up today by ARD (Channel One, German public TV). It's a health story, but it's also a jobs story.
The German Health Minister, Jens Spahn, says that the ministry wants to move ahead and pursue improving the healthcare sector. This means adding 13,000 more nurses and technicians onto the national health 'grid'.
The money to fill the jobs? It'll come from the tax base, and will have an impact.
But the chief question is.....where do you find 13,000 qualified nurses? Coming out of thin air?
A couple of years ago, some German company went to the Philippines and started a nursing academy. The deal was simple.....German language classes were developed, and a nursing program (with certifications) was attached. You'd finish up this program, and get a work-visa into Germany. The idea was a couple hundred a year. But that was just to counter-balance the shortage that occurs in a normal year....not to fill 13,000 more positions.
My general guess is that a number of nurses in places like Greece, Czech, Romania, and Bulgaria will look at the pay offerings, consider the language classes, and maybe up to forty-percent of these positions will be filled. Maybe from the recent immigrants into Germany.....you might find a couple of thousand with the ability to fill the jobs. But I'll take a guess that in four years, there are still empty positions existing from the 13,000 potential jobs.
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