Badr bin Saud The Saudi nurse’s unemployment is caused by her salary equivalent to that of four and a half non-Saudi nurses

Adding in his article published today in the Okaz newspaper that the Kingdom is the second country in the world in terms of nursing staff salaries, worth $ 96,000 a year for its citizens, and more than $ 22,000 for foreigners, surpassed by Luxembourg and Kuwait, with amounts up to 120 thousand dollars and 97 thousand dollars. The two countries cannot be compared to the Kingdom, due to the low population within them, and the low need for nurses in large numbers, followed by America with over 80 thousand dollars. and then Ireland with about 65 thousand dollars, however, the rates of Emiratisation in the nursing profession are still low, and the percentage of Saudi nurses, according to the statistics of the current year, is in the order of 37%, and foreigners nurses make up nearly double, or 63%, and these numbers include the public and private sectors.

The salary of a Saudi nurse is 4 times that of a non-Saudi

She added that the salaries of the nurses she talked to Saudis and foreigners about tackle an important issue, which is that the salary of a Saudi nurse equals the salary of four and a half non-Saudi nurses, and the problem is that the old women excuses that did not respect the efficiency and seriousness of the Saudis at work are still present, but with a different combination, there was talk of the modest qualification of the Saudis, so much so that they were appointed ambulance drivers, on their poor knowledge of the English language, on the low level of institutes and colleges that graduate there and their failure to pass the specialization test, as a requirement for licensing, at the Commission for Health Specialties, and that Saudi Arabia prefers comfortable office work to clinically work burdensome.

common justifications

He explained that these are common justifications among Saudi health leaders and foreign nursing cadres in the Kingdom, both of whom are working to serve their own agenda and personal interests.The first category wants to provide the service in exchange for lower wages, and the second category is trying to protect itself from Saudi competition and superiority over it, particularly in the private healthcare sector.

The largest workforce in the world

It also said that nursing represents the largest professional picture in the world and the number of its employees is about 32 million nurses and nurses, and it should be noted that the global percentage of nurses does not exceed 10%, at the best of all. hypothesis, and the rest are women or men working in academia or other fields and, according to the UN Standards for Sustainable Development Goals, there is a need to increase nurses to nearly 40 million, especially in specific specialties such as nurses intensive care, emergency and obstetricians.

220 thousand city nurses