timesofindia.indiatimes.com - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: More than half of the 4,000 Indian nationals caught up in the conflict in Yemen are nurses, the foreign ministry said on Monday, the latest security scare for medical staff working in the Middle East after dozens were kidnapped in Iraq last year.
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The nurses, mostly from Kerala, are often hired on harsh terms with middlemen taking up-front fees, and hospitals are reluctant to let them go because they would have to close without foreign staff.
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