Malta faces another mass exodus of foreign nurses as an Irish healthcare recruitment agency seeks to hire hundreds from the island in October. The recruitment agency Servisource said it has 310 vacancies to fill in Ireland. Malta’s complement of nurses currently stands at 4,000. The island has a perennial shortage, with the number leaving the profession never matching those joining. It is estimated that it needs an additional 400 nurses. Servisource sent an advert about its recruitment drive to people in the industry. Sources said it was one of many nurse recruitment agencies in the UK and Ireland that have been head-hunting Indian, Pakistani and Filipino nurses working in the Maltese healthcare system as well as those in homes for the elderly. The advert for nurses. Around 15 per cent of nurses working in Malta are third-country nationals, mainly hailing from India and Pakistan. Contacted by Times of Malta, Servisource healthcare manager Aileen McCann confirmed that the agency was seeking to recruit experienced nurses from Malta to work in Ireland. “We have been aware of Indian nurses relocating to Malta and gaining invaluable nursing experience while working in your hospitals...