00:00Germany is facing a healthcare crisis. Hospitals are overwhelmed, nursing homes are understaffed,
00:07and patients are waiting longer than ever. The root cause? A growing shortage of skilled
00:13medical professionals. But here is the twist. Doctors who are trained, experienced and ready
00:19to help are in Germany. So what's stopping them?
00:22When it comes to the practicability of everything, you almost think that, well, do these people
00:29actually need health workers or the... For foreign doctors, especially from non-EU countries,
00:36their path to practising in Germany is long, bureaucratic, and for many, discouraging.
00:42Kunyu has, for the last two years, been going through processes that will allow him to work
00:47here. He knows Germany's red tape all too well.
00:50You have to wait long, and everything takes its sweet time. So initially it took like one
00:57month for me to get a reply of the fact that they have started working on my things. But
01:02then they told me the documents weren't properly certified or something like that. We had used
01:08the wrong certifier at the first time. So like, they basically were telling me to do the whole
01:15thing of certifying again.
01:16The frustration and lack of information prompted him to set up a YouTube channel aimed at helping
01:21other Africans navigate Germany better. He gives advice on what aspiring healthcare workers must
01:28prepare for in Germany. Kunyu spends his days creating educational content and studying for
01:41one of two major exams, the so-called Kentonese Prüfung. It's like deep, deep medicine. And so the
01:47requirement from this is, it's almost like you're repeating medical school in a way. You have to
01:53to know all the things, but of course in German, but also the success rate of it is, many people
02:00quite complain about it, especially in this part of the state, like NRV. And if that wasn't enough,
02:08each state has its own rules. What's accepted in Berlin might not be valid in North Ryan Westphalia.
02:15It's a bureaucratic maze. Last year, there were some 47,400 positions in Germany's healthcare sector,
02:23left vacant due to labor shortages. And yet, foreign trained doctors are stuck in the system,
02:30waiting for approvals while hospitals go unstaffed.
02:34The process is quite rigorous and it's not, let me just say it's not for the faint-hearted. If you're
02:39not willing to go all in, it is very easy to give up. Kunyu pushes through. Two years in,
02:45language mastered. First exam passed, now preparing for the final test.
02:52But I try not to be, not to be negative. I know I have done so many exams in my life,
03:00it's just one of those exams. Plus there are so many success rates. I know of colleagues who have
03:05come from Uganda. I know of two colleagues. One of them is living in München who finished this exam.
03:10Germany's healthcare system needs doctors. The doctors are ready. But the system needs to be ready for them too.
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