Saxony needs around 5,000 additional nursing staff by 2030 due to its ageing population - and will not be able to meet this demand with local staff alone, according to Social Affairs Minister Petra Köpping. The SPD politician is focusing on recruiting foreign trainees and specialists.
Young Brazilians are being trained in Leipzig
In Leipzig, Köpping visited a Diakonie nursing home where young people from Brazil are being trained as nurses for the first time. The contacts for this project came about during a visit by Köpping to the South American country.
Nine young men and women have been completing the three-year training program since September. They had previously completed a language course in their home country at the expense of Diakonie in order to learn German at an advanced level. Köpping asked the trainees how they had arrived in Leipzig and what experiences they had had so far.
