Bangladesh is now exporting doctors and nurses.
Affecting a growing number of countries, labor shortage is benefiting Bangladesh workers, with a new trend in highly skilled people such as doctors.
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With the Covid-19 restrictions almost over around the world, and a vaccination rate of seventy percent, Bangladeshis are needed again around the world.
In November 2021 alone more than 100 000 Bangladeshis left the country with a work visa. If the trend continues, 800 000 to 1 000 000 people will be employed in the current fiscal year (July 1st, 2021, till June 30th, 2022).
More than ten million Bangladeshis are officially working abroad, bringing huge remittances back home that are substantially contributing to the GDP growth.
A record of USD 22 billion was sent to Bangladesh by its workforce abroad in 2021, making it the 8th largest remittance-receiving country, with a projected USD 25 billion in 2025.
In addition to help develop the country its contributing to increase the country’s foreign exchanges reserves, expected to reach USD 54 billion in 2024.
One example of the new demands for Bangladeshis workers can be found in Malaysia. Even if more than 300 000 Bangladeshis are already working there, the last two years saw many Nepalese working as security agents return home, and with the reopening of the Malaysian economy, some 30 000 security agents are lacking. Until recently, in addition of Malaysians only Nepalese nationals had the right to work in security,
An agreement was signed in Bangladesh’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur in December 2021 which allows Bangladeshis to work in Malaysia as security guards.
Another illustration is in the Maldives who have signed an agreement to recruit doctors and nurses from Bangladesh.
2022 will see Bangladesh sending doctors, nurses, hygienists, caregivers, and dental technicians to Kuwait (already hired 735 nurses and technicians), Qatar, Germany and Japan as well, with Greece and the United Kingdom in the final stages of an agreement.
Regarding Greece, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the two countries, the first one between Bangladesh and a European country.
This agreement will provide a five-year work permit for 4 000 Bangladeshis workers every year, mainly in the agriculture sector at the beginning.
Romania is expressing interest as well, and over 300 work visa are already being processed, and the Kosovo Ambassador to Bangladesh discussed this subject with the Minister for Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment in March.
Regarding the development of skilled workforce being sent abroad, Bangladesh is expanding its training centers.
Just for Japan, thirty technical training centers across the country are offering the necessary training for the requested jobs profiles together with a six-month course on Japanese language and culture.
Among the new destinations hiring Bangladeshis workers in 2022, there Burundi, Cambodia, Croatia, Hungary, Japan, Poland, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, and Uzbekistan.
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