Berlin- When rockets hit university buildings, dormitories and parts of town, they fled west – and got stuck in Berlin.
Hundreds of medical students from all over the world who have studied in Ukrainian universities could now solve the problem of skilled workers with us. Here in Germany, as third-country nationals, they do not receive any social benefits, many come from Nigeria, Cameroon or India.
Katharina Larisch cares for Ukrainian students, including teaching them ultrasound
A professor from Berlin took care of her. Katharina Larisch from the University of Applied Sciences for Health, Social Affairs and Education has become the angel of Ukraine’s forgotten students.
“Most of them have already studied medicine for four or five years and are about to undergo specialized training,” says Larisch. “If they are not helped, they will have to abandon their studies.”
On the one hand, hundreds of specialists wanted without prospects, on the other hand, thousands of vacancies in the health professions. Larisch brought clinicians and students together, removed official barriers – successfully!
Around 20 students will soon be able to start as nursing assistants at the Brandenburg clinic in Bernau, where there are around 50 vacancies. Others are to be hired from hospitals in Frankfurt (Oder) and Potsdam. Four are already working in the sterilization department of the Berlin Vivantes group, cleaning surgical instruments.
Elvis Bruno Djomou (29) was a student in the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia. He helps clean used surgical instruments at the Friedrichshain Clinic
A huge win for both sides, says Larisch: Young people are filling unattractive shifts, weekend and night shifts and paying taxes. “They can use the morning to attend online lectures at their Ukrainian universities and have an income.”
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