Out of 290 proposals under the criteria set by the Malaysian government, the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) today has selected some 99 health check-up centres for foreign job aspirants, who wishes to go to Malaysia.
Along with the health check-up centres in the Valley, the ministry has also selected health some 12 check-up centres outside the Valley including in Kaski, Jhapa, Dhanusha, Sunsari, Banke, Chitwan, Dang and Kailali.
Earlier, migrants were receiving their health certificates from only 39 check-up centres that were authorised by the government of Malaysia. The dispute of the health centre has blown out of proportion that has stopped the outflow of Nepali migrant workers to Malaysia in recent months. After the government cracked down on Immigration Security Clearance and One Stop Centre that had been levying additional charges on Nepali migrants for obtaining health certificates, the government had stopped sending workers to Malaysia since last May.
Though, Nepal and Malaysia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the bilateral labour agreement last October, the process to send workers to Malaysia has not resumed yet.
Though the ministry claims that it has brought the new policy for Malaysia-bound workers to break the monopoly of some health check-up centres – operating for a long period of time – the opposition blamed the government for disrupting the outflow of the Nepali migrant workers to Malaysia, the first choice of the Nepali migrants. But the government claimed that it has finalised the list of the health check-up institutions on the basis of the Malaysian government’s new health standard guideline that clarifies the medical requirements for migrant workers.
Along with the health check-up centres in the Valley, the ministry has also selected health some 12 check-up centres outside the Valley including in Kaski, Jhapa, Dhanusha, Sunsari, Banke, Chitwan, Dang and Kailali.
Earlier, migrants were receiving their health certificates from only 39 check-up centres that were authorised by the government of Malaysia. The dispute of the health centre has blown out of proportion that has stopped the outflow of Nepali migrant workers to Malaysia in recent months. After the government cracked down on Immigration Security Clearance and One Stop Centre that had been levying additional charges on Nepali migrants for obtaining health certificates, the government had stopped sending workers to Malaysia since last May.
Though, Nepal and Malaysia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the bilateral labour agreement last October, the process to send workers to Malaysia has not resumed yet.
Though the ministry claims that it has brought the new policy for Malaysia-bound workers to break the monopoly of some health check-up centres – operating for a long period of time – the opposition blamed the government for disrupting the outflow of the Nepali migrant workers to Malaysia, the first choice of the Nepali migrants. But the government claimed that it has finalised the list of the health check-up institutions on the basis of the Malaysian government’s new health standard guideline that clarifies the medical requirements for migrant workers.
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