“But unlike Australia, Canada and New Zealand, not only is there a clear focus in this country, but there is also a lack of necessary infrastructure.”
Berlin If you ask Ekhard Popp what you need most in Germany as an immigration country, the answer is probably: a lot of patience. The 54-year-old is the managing director of Kidizeit GmbH from Hanover, which operates specialist pediatric nursing services – with branches in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Several hundred nursing professionals ensure that seriously ill children are cared for and that their parents and other family members can participate in life or go to work.
Due to the difficulty of finding employees to work hard, Kidizeit turned very early to foreign workers, for example from the Philippines. But before the arriving nurses could be deployed, the authorities in Lower Saxony had to certify the equivalence of the training. In ten cases, Popp has been waiting to process applications since October 2021, and in another 27 cases since March this year.
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