KOCHI: The Indian Nurses Parents Association has demanded steps to rehabilitate the nurses, stranded in Kuwait owing to alleged recruitment fraud.
While the recruited nurses are losing jobs, even within few months after joining, the agencies which have recruited them continue to notify fresh recruitment of nursing graduates from Kerala, according to the Association members.
The Kerala Government and emigration authorities should take the iniative to bring this to an end. The three agencies in the state had recruited 85 nurses to Kuwait recently, after collecting `7 lakh from each nurse, said the parents. The nurses arrived in Kuwait on January 9, worked for five months and then the Kuwait government suspended contract with the hospitals.
The parents alleged that the recruiting agency switched the job contract to a blacklisted company without their daughters’ consent. The Association has met Union Minister for Foreign Affairs Sushma Swaraj and have filed a complaint with the City Police Commissioner and Chief Minister.
But the investigation procedure is moving at a very slow pace, perhaps to the advantage of the fraud recruiters, alleged the parents.