A Central Health director is joining the team travelling to India as part of nursing recruitment efforts.
Government announced this week that they would be opening a new healthcare recruitment desk in Bengaluru, India, where they have had previous success in recruiting nurses.
Premier Furey is announcing a provincial government recruitment desk to recruit registered nurses from India, who are trained similarly to how they are in NL. The desk will be similar to the one in Warsaw.@VOCMNEWS pic.twitter.com/yxXm8o7wg1
— Noah Sheppard (@SheppardNoah14) November 3, 2022
Joining the initial team will be Central Health Director of Critical Care Services Rahul Girijappan, who graduated from a nursing school in Bengaluru before coming to this province, where he has worked for nearly 13 years.
He originally planned to move on from the province to one of the prairie provinces, however, it was the people who changed his mind.
He says his intention was to gather a couple of years of experience and leave, but because of how he was accepted by the community and the people of Newfoundland and Labrador, he decided to stay. He and his wife have since had two children in the province, and recently moved Ginjappan’s mother, as well as his brother and his family, to the province.
Ginjappan says he’s excited to be a part of the mission.
He says it’s a place people in Newfoundland and Labrador are not familiar with, so he can add his experience in living in both places to match the right people with the right places.
