(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The embassy has asked the state government to advise the nurses to wait till the situation in the country where a civil war is raging between the government forces and the rival militia improves.

A group of 200 nurses from Kerala are getting ready to go to war-torn Libya even as nurses working there are being evacuated by the government of India.

The Indian embassy in Libya has asked the state government to stop the nurses said P. Sudeep CEO of Roots-Norka the field agency of non-resident Keralites affairs (Norka) department. He said the first secretary at the embassy had informed the state government that the condition in many places in the north African country were not safe for working.

The communication from the embassy said that the nurses were being sent by recruiting agency based at Koothattukulam in Ernakulam district on visit visa via Amman. The first batch of nurses are scheduled to fly from Mumbai on Friday.

The embassy official said that the nurses were being taken to hospitals in Bengazhi from where most Indian nurses have already left. They were recruited after taking Rs200000 from each. Majority of these new recruits are from the central districts in the state.

The embassy has asked the state government to advise the nurses to wait till the situation in the country where a civil war is raging between the government forces and the rival militia improves.

The embassy official pointed out that the federal government had imposed strict restrictions on migration to the country. The Roots-Norka CEO said that he had forwarded the communication from the Embassy to the NRI cell in the state police. Sudeep said that the Ernkulam rural Superintendent of Police was investigating the matter. The new recruitment comes less than a week after 70 nurses returned from various hospitals in Bengazhi to Kerala.

They were evacuated after the matter was taken up by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy with External Affairs Minister Sushama Swaraj. However several nurses from the state are not willing to return. Norka officials said that some 600 nurses in lesser troubled areas in Libya had decided to stay put there. More than 500 nurses have returned from Libya as well as Iraq since July after trouble broke out there. Most of these nurses have made it clear that they would never return to these countries even after the return of normalcy.

But this has not deterred the new migrants. They are ready to take the risk as they are working for measly salaries which are not sufficient to pay back the loan they availed for their studies. Majority of the nurses who went to Libya before the outbreak of the current violence was getting Rs40000 and Rs50000.

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