A delegation from Oman is expected to visit Pakistan soon to recruit over 40 female gynaecologists and 100 female medical attendants, officials in Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC) told Business Recorder on Wednesday.
Officials said the ministry of Oman had asked the OEC for providing the list of trained doctors and paramedical staff, hence the Corporation would soon start negotiations in this regard with the administrative authorities of Oman.
A delegation, including officials from Ministry of Labour and the OEC would be sent to Oman for initiating negotiations on this matter besides impressing upon them to allocate a bigger share to Pakistan in the recruitment of manpower in the fields of medicine, engineering, education, science, agriculture, manufacturing, and shipping. After having experience in advance working environment, Pakistani manpower would be qualified, trained and diversified, they said.
Officials are confident that the ministry of Oman would accept Pakistan's proposal to induct sufficient number of manpower besides highly educated professionals.
They said that delegation would try to convince them for minimising of manpower from countries, other than Pakistan and recruit Pak workforce and professionals at reasonable emoluments in comparison to other countries.
Oman is diversifying its recruitment policy, due to huge payment of salaries to natives as compared to people having the same qualifications and experience from other countries, they added.
They apprised that the industrial growth of a country was also depended on the utilisation of manpower returned abroad, who had been polished their skills in advanced working conditions. Therefore, the government should evolve a policy in this regard, which was the key to sustainable and stable economy.
The officials said the government was pondering to start training programmes for unskilled manpower, who want to go abroad in search of jobs, which would help earn foreign exchange for the country. It may be mentioned that around 130 doctors and 33 nurses had already been sent to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last year.