2024-02-10 04:15:26
“For the first time, more than 30 nurses will graduate from Azerbaijan Medical University next year (2024) and start looking for work. Probably won’t find it. I have been a nurse for five years and cannot find a job. The state allocates money for the training of so many nurses, but then it is not possible to provide them with work”, – said one of dozens of nurses looking for work to Azadlig Radio. Ayten Abbasova he says.
The State Statistics Committee announced that there are 38,479 nurses in the country by the beginning of 2023. It includes only those working in public medical institutions, there are no exact statistics of those working in private hospitals. In parallel, hundreds of nurses graduate from secondary education institutions every year, and their number is increasing every year. For example, if 794 people graduated in 2021, this number was equal to 909 in 2022. Since 2020, the only university providing higher medical education in the country has created a nursing specialty. About 100 students study in this specialty at the Medical University. In addition, in addition to universities and colleges, there are 50-200 AZN courses aimed at teaching nursing specialty knowledge in different regions of the country.
Study for four years, then…
A. Abbasova thinks that as the number of nurses in the country increases, the problem of unemployment in this field deepens, and hundreds of young people like her remain unemployed. After graduation, he sent his CV (job application) to a number of medical facilities for work, but did not receive a response from any of them.
“State hospitals did not accept those who passed the course. But in some private clinics, those who had been nurses for three months were hired, we were left out. I only used it for my relatives and neighbors, I needed three to five manats to transfer two systems once a month.”– Abbasova complains.
Abbasova says that 17 of her 24 former teammates are unemployed, and considers it important that the state, which spends on training hundreds of nurses every year, provides them with jobs.
Freedom radio