Bribe for nursing recruitment - Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take action soon

An official decision will soon be issued to curb the practice of Indian nurses being forced to pay bribes of thousands of dinars to recruitment companies in Kuwait for working in the nursing sector in Kuwait, local Arabic newspaper Al-Rai daily reported. This was reported after the Indian Ambassador to Kuwait HE Sunil Jain officially contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and demanded action in this regard. Such a decision can put an end to the corruption, irregularities and wrong practices being carried out for recruiting nurses and health workers in Kuwait, reports Al-Rai daily.

The recruitment of Indian nurses to Kuwait was always been in the news for paying huge bribe, especially those from Kerala were the recruitment agents collecting 6000 to 10,000 KD as bribe for Nurses recruitment to ministry hospitals. Indian embassy in Kuwait is getting large number of complaints regarding this from the community. These companies collected thousands of dinars from each nurse for his/her recruitment without abiding by the necessary standards and specifications and without checking whether the nurses were fit for the job professionally, medically, socially, or even morally.

Recently, the Embassy of India in Kuwait officially raised the issue with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to urgently address this widespread corruption and unacceptable irregularities related to the recruitment of Indian nurses to work in Kuwait.

Last month, one of the contracting companies lost the contract with ministry and around 400 nurses lost their job. Majority of them were paid hefty sum to recruitment agents believing that they will work here till the normal retirement age of 60 years.