Bangladesh to send nurses to Maldives for COVID-19 service

Bangladesh will send nurses to Maldives for providing services during COVID-19 pandemic, foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said after a meeting with his Maldivian counterpart in Dhaka on Tuesday.

Maldivian foreign minister Abdullah Shahid reached Dhaka on Monday on a three-day official visit.

The two ministers held a bilateral talk on Tuesday where they discussed engagements of the two countries in various fields including regional aspects and cooperation.

The two countries would sign a MoU with provisions for taking doctors, teachers, and skilled manpower for other sectors in Maldives.

It would also incorporate provisions for streamlining presence of existing Bangladeshi workers in the Indian Ocean island country.

Another MoU would also be signed for cooperation between diplomatic training institutions of the two countries.

About 150,000 Bangladeshi workers are working in Maldives now with over 60,000 of them who have become illegal.

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