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The pandemic has meant that the healthcare sector is in dire need of additional manpower to relieve those who work there on a daily basis.
In the spring, individuals with health professional competence were asked to register as reserve personnel to ensure operation in a demanding period.
The need for additional staff in the health and care sector continues. Therefore, the government opens up so that foreigners with a professional health background, living in Norway, can now contribute. The requirement is that they are healthy and meet all infection conditions.
– We make a change so that people who are in Norway, but who have limitations in their availability to work, but have a professional health education, can now work. We just have to use all good forces, says Justice Minister Monica Mæland (H) to NRK.
Extend work permit
Mæland says many people get in touch because they want to contribute. Among those who have contact are foreign students studying health subjects in Norway and foreigners with professional health competence who have a work permit in Norway, but who are limited in how much they can work.
– They are people who live and work in Norway, who are currently studying or working. They have a residence permit. It’s simply a matter of expanding access to work, he says.
The change will apply from Monday, and the Minister of Justice asks those who have the appropriate background, and want to contribute, to contact the UDI to extend the work permit.
Uncertain chorus many
Currently, the Ministry of Justice does not have an overview of how many additional hands can bring the instructions to the health sector. But they inform the NRK that there are probably less than 100 people.
– We know that there are several foreign students studying health sciences in Norway. We also know that there are some who have jobs in which the work permit is limited to these positions. So we hope this contributes to municipalities and health trusts, says Mæland.
The change will last as long as it takes, he says.
– It depends on how long the pandemic lasts and what the need will be in the health and care sector. But we do this for as long as it takes.
