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Germany hoping the thousands of Syrian doctors working in the country stay after Assad's fall

(19 Dec 2024) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER:4541609 RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Berlin - 17 December 2024 1. Wide of people walking to hospital 2. Medical worker pushing hospital bed ASSOCIATED PRESS Berlin - 18 December 2024 3. SOUNDBITE (German) Hiba Alnayef, assistant pediatric doctor: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 4 TO 8++ “The Assad regime has destroyed everything politically, socially and economically. So if we want to go back first you have to look properly and rebuild the state, everything, properly. It's not that easy and many Syrians are really well integrated here. They work, they've built a really good life and it's very difficult to start from scratch. Are we thinking about it (going back to Syria)? Of course. So we've already talked about it, haven't we? Yes. So I have it in my mind, but I also have a home here now, so it's difficult to think, I don't know what's coming in the future. I have a lot of hope for my country, I have good hope in my people, that together we can build a good city and maybe I can help there too. Yes.” ASSOCIATED PRESS Berlin - 17 December 2024 4. Medical worker walking to hospital ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Eschweiler, Germany - 22 November 2021 5. Medical worker entering room 6. Medical worker treating patient ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Eschweiler, Germany - 22 November 2021 7. Medical worker treating patient 8. Medical workers walking ASSOCIATED PRESS Berlin - 17 December 2024 9. Various of general practitioner, Ayham Darouich, speaking with patient 10. SOUNDBITE (German) Ayham Darouich, general practitioner: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 11 TO 14++ “They have their family or their practices here, they have their society here, they love their home country. But as I said, it's totally different when you live and work there or when you live and work here and fly there on vacation. Or if you meet your people there from time to time. And as far as I've heard, none of my friends want to go back.” ASSOCIATED PRESS Berlin - 18 December 2024 12. Ambulances outside hospital 13. Signs outside hospital ASSOCIATED PRESS Berlin - 17 December 2024 14. Ambulance driving STORYLINE: Thousands of Syrian doctors work in Germany, and the fall of Bashar Assad is raising concern over the potential consequences for the health sector if many of them were to return home.  Germany became a leading destination for Syrian refugees over the past decade, and some politicians were quick to start talking about encouraging the return of at least some after rebels took Damascus earlier this month. Others noted that the exiles include many well-qualified people and said their departure would hurt Germany — particularly that of doctors and other medical staff. Syrians have become a factor in a health sector that struggles to fill jobs, part of a wider problem Germany has with an aging population and a shortage of skilled labor.  The head of the German Hospital Federation, Gerald Gass, says Syrians now make up the largest single group of foreign doctors, accounting for 2% to 3%.  An estimated 5,000 Syrian doctors work in hospitals alone. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, who puts the total number of Syrian doctors at over 6,000, says they are “indispensable” to health care.  Gass said the picture hospital operators are getting from Syrian doctors so far is “very varied.” But “no looming mass movement toward Syria is recognizable” at present. She has been asked in the last 10 days, “what if the Syrians all go back now?” Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...