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Enis Bogilović, 20-year-old general nurse, had just deposited one of the examination of German at the Goethe Institute in Sarajevo. Just the day before received a certificate that is accepted to work at a clinic near Cologne. New job, new environment, new friends, new country.

"It was very difficult to decide on this since I was very young and I've rarely traveled outside BiH. My parents are here and all the family I was in Bosnia, but before I decided to get into this project I was talking to my parents who gave me maximum support for all decisions, support to go to Germany, because I am there waiting for a better future, so I no dilemma and decided, "says Enisa for Deutsche Welle.
A new life in Germany is looking forward to, although it is still fear."It is easy to go to another city, but it is very difficult to go to another country where a different language, the other traditions, other cultures ... one big fear government to get used to all this. Again, they say that a man easily gets used to better. "

Triple-Win - hope for medical workers

Enis is in Sarajevo ended Nursing school and planned to continue the study of medicine, only what he likes, but did not pass the entrance exam, she was disappointed, but did not flinch, but decided to do internships at the University Clinical Center in Sarajevo (KCUS) and pass a professional exam. After all, the work was not, and then he found out about the project of the German Agency for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit - GIZ) and decided to sign up in September last year.

As explained Azra Ramic, coordinator of the GIZ project, the so-called Triple-Win project GIZ, together with the Employment Agency of the Federal Republic of Germany and in partnership with the Agency for Labor and Employment and all branches of the entity and local employment services and the Employment Institute of Brcko District, working to be self-sustainable and responsible mediates labor secondary education - medical staff - and that is to be transmitted to work in Germany."Basically, the whole project Triple-Win is based on the government's agreement on job placement in Germany.

The interest is great, but not only our target groups, but much wider. We have a lot of queries from the profile that we do not, we can mediate. Various profiles occur, however, what you project Triple-Win deals exclusively with the profile of a nurse, respectively, medical technicians general or pediatric direction, "said Ramic for Deutsche Welle, noting that the same program is implemented even in Serbia and the Philippines.

drastic differences

He explains that the intergovernmental agreements that defined this profile in Germany scarce, and for that profile in BiH at the same time there are a large number of unemployed. "He wants to avoid that mediates labor force that is needed in Bosnia and Herzegovina and of course to avoid the transmission of workforce in Germany is not required," explains Ramic.

Triple-Win project, he says, offers German language course, required for a work permit for Germany, and "cooperation with the German Agency for Labor and Employment find a suitable employer for the appropriate profile and when a person gets a job, then help in this whole procedure of issuing work permits and visas, departure to Germany, integration in Germany, which is very important in the process of recognition of diplomas ". GIZ project started in 2013 and so far, only through the project, in Germany employs 300 nurses and technicians from BiH. These days it started a new round of registration for interested parties to work in Germany through Triple-Win project, and the conditions are, as before, the quality - done an internship and passed the certification exam. Returns, to the knowledge of Azra Ramic, there were but two due to a death in the family.

Although not even come to Germany, Enis Bogilović already noticed huge differences in the systems of the two countries. Through internships at clinics KCUS experienced is how to be a nurse in Sarajevo. She knew it was not a job at the clinic, even in some of the city's health centers. In Cologne, however, the job is waiting, although it will be in Germany set out at the beginning of summer, when completed exams in German, necessary for a work permit. The contract has already received and stunned the detail and accuracy of the document.

Sarajevo record Goethe Institute

"You know it all working conditions. The difference is drastic in relation to our system as regards working hours, remuneration, days off, and the organization itself to one class. With us is almost a tradition that the very small number of nurses on a ward and in a lot of patients, while there totally different system, so-called living room system, where one nurse on duty receives approximately two rooms with some five to six patients with which it works in that shift, "says Enis.

Exceptional interest of medical workers for Germany is visible and the number of students of German courses at the Goethe Institute in Sarajevo. Professor of German Bahira Zunic, in whose group is Enisa, says that from the conversation with the participants of the course often learned that many of them just medical workers. Allegations and curiosity that the Goethe Institute in Sarajevo two years ago, broken down and record the number of enrolled students, which is traditionally held in Istanbul.Professor Zunic herself lived and educated in Germany, where he still lives her family. She says she is well and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but that "due to the fact that young people are leaving, the question is whether it will be for us to work, whether we have someone teach the German language".

Departure of doctors and other medical workers should be taken seriously, said Dr. Fahrudin Kulenovic, until recently the long-time president of the Medical Association of the Sarajevo Canton. Only last year, according to Deutsche Welle, BiH has gone over 300 physicians. The problem affects not only BiH, as the "migration of doctors as old as their craft."

The situation worse only in Romania

"In addition, in 2008 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that threatens humanity great crises lack of doctors. This is an estimate and it is happening in the world. Now you think that will pass the poorest countries and least regulated, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, when say today Croatia, which is in the EU, there is a shortage of four thousand doctors. Our doctors immediately offered a job, apartment and good salaries and they are leaving. I can not even imagine what would happen if BiH suddenly entered the EU? Suddenly we left without doctors, "warns Dr. Kulenovic and predicts "a great lack of doctors in BiH, very quickly."

He points out that doctors in the region, "when it comes to the height of their awards, their quality of life, material quality - thrown under the feet of any authority which, as we have witnessed, here alternate quickly." Allegations by the fact that, in terms of earnings doctors and medical workers, from Bosnia and Herzegovina in a worse position only Romania. Serious condition in health care in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Dr. Kulenovic, greatly contribute to the "unskilled people at the forefront" of the sector. "Political parties have a sensibility for only one thing - to win the election to then in commanding places, but also in health care, law relatives, friends, prominent members of the party, etc ... and we seem to educate doctors for a united Europe" concludes Dr. Kulenovic.

Enis Bogilović is part of schooling completed in BiH, and in Germany, hopes next to work, continue to study what he loves most - medicine. "To be honest, if I do not meet you some of my plans on education, I do not plan to return. I would not go to plan to go back, "says Enis and concludes:" In Germany I build my life and tomorrow have my family, my children there to study and then wait for retirement, because I honestly think that BiH as a country is progressing, but very slow steps i do not know when it will reach that level that I myself wanted to go back. "

• 21 May, 2017
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