In Germany, a significant number of Syrian doctors are now being allowed to stay despite increasing calls for Syrians to return home. These doctors are crucial to the healthcare system, particularly in rural areas where physician shortages are acute. With the fall of Bashar al-Assad, many Syrian healthcare professionals face a tough decision between returning to a war-torn homeland that desperately needs them and continuing their lives in Germany, which has begun to feel like home.
"Whole areas in the health sector would fall away if all the Syrians who work here now were to leave our country," Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said.
"I looked around the street where I grew up and said 'Goodbye, I'm never going to see this street again.' I was so sure that I would never return..."
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