Indian nurses who are set to return from the conflict-torn Yemen have a peculiar problem.
One might think that they would be more than glad to jump on the aircraft provided by the Indian government and come back home. But for them, it is not quite the bail out they want because their biggest problem right now is not the airstrikes but money.
According to Hindustan Times, these Indian nurses have huge educational loans to repay back home. In addition to that, the families have shelled out a significant amount of money to arrange for their jobs and travel in Yemen.
The report says,
Most of the more than 500 Keralite nurses were willing to stay put in the war-ravaged country despite food and water scarcity, besides the growing risk to their lives from relentless airstrikes, because they were not paid for the past three months or more and the Yemeni employers have declined to give back their passports.
The Kerala government meanwhile has tried to persuade the nurses to take the two ships that leave for Djibouti on Tuesday where the Indian government’s airplane is on standby.
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs VK Singh will also be Djibouti on Tuesday to personally supervise the operation.
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