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A senior doctor prepares to enter a room of a patient in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Freising, Germany. Photo: AFP/file
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - More than 6,000 Syrian doctors work in Germany without holding a German passport, according to data released by the German Medical Association.
Germany’s media on Sunday cited the association as revealing that a total of 63,763 doctors had worked in the country without holding a German passport as of December 31, 2023, adding that Syrians are on the top of the list. The data showed that the number had doubled since 2013.
German media cited Funke media outlet as having reported that 6,120 of these 63,763 doctors working in Germany last year were from Syria,followed by Romania, Austria, Greece, Russia and Turkey according to the list provided by the German Medical Association.
It is not clear how many of these doctors are from the Kurdish-led northeast Syria (Rojava).
Syrians rose up against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in 2011, leading to a full-scale civil war that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and has left millions more in need of dire humanitarian assistance.
Over 13 million Syrians, half the country’s pre-war population, have been displaced since the start of the civil war, more than six million of which are refugees who have fled the war-torn country, according to UN figures.
While the Syrian regime has managed through the years to regain control of large parts of the country from rebels, pro-Turkey militia groups are dominant in the northwest and the northeast of the country is under Kurdish control.
Germany has recently eased migration laws to allow skilled people to permanently remain in the country.
Germany’s media on Sunday cited the association as revealing that a total of 63,763 doctors had worked in the country without holding a German passport as of December 31, 2023, adding that Syrians are on the top of the list. The data showed that the number had doubled since 2013.
German media cited Funke media outlet as having reported that 6,120 of these 63,763 doctors working in Germany last year were from Syria,followed by Romania, Austria, Greece, Russia and Turkey according to the list provided by the German Medical Association.
It is not clear how many of these doctors are from the Kurdish-led northeast Syria (Rojava).
Syrians rose up against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in 2011, leading to a full-scale civil war that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and has left millions more in need of dire humanitarian assistance.
Over 13 million Syrians, half the country’s pre-war population, have been displaced since the start of the civil war, more than six million of which are refugees who have fled the war-torn country, according to UN figures.
While the Syrian regime has managed through the years to regain control of large parts of the country from rebels, pro-Turkey militia groups are dominant in the northwest and the northeast of the country is under Kurdish control.
Germany has recently eased migration laws to allow skilled people to permanently remain in the country.
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