'Let me prove myself': Doctor from Nepal talks about job-hunting frustration on P.E.I.Akash Kumar Mishra treated critically ill patients in Nepal and Dubai before moving to P.E.I. with his wife and their 11-month-old son. Mishra has applied for hundreds of jobs, but is struggling to find work that will pay enough to support his family. He talks to CBC's Laura Meader.
He understands and accepts that he can't practise medicine in Canada without the proper certifications this country requires, but he thought his years of education and experience would help him land a decent job. He said he has saved lives working in critical care, and has experience in addiction care, long-term care and hospital administration.
Both he and his wife, Shreya Karki, got permanent residency in Canada partly on the basis of their health-care backgrounds, he said.Karki is working as a resident care worker, but the income is not enough to support them and their 11-month-old son. "Everyone says we need doctors in this island, we need nurses, we need health-care workers, but everything is so slow," Karki said.Mishra was told he was short-listed for an associate physician job with Health P.E.I., but that was three months ago.