JOHOR BARU: Malaysian-trained nurses who go to work in the Middle East are highly paid and it is not surprising to see them driving a Mercedes-Benz or a BMW, said former ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Datuk Syed Hussein Abdul Kadir Al-Habshee.
He said hospitals in the Middle East are willing to pay high salaries for foreign nurses to work there, adding that there were now about 2,000 Malaysian nurses working in the UAE and between 7,000 and 8,000 in Saudi Arabia.
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