A shortage of junior doctors to start work in hospitals this August is forcing the NHS to try to recruit from India, the BBC has learned.
Tighter immigration rules introduced in recent years meant many overseas medics left Britain and returned home.
But the exodus, added to new European regulations limiting the hours of doctors, caused unfilled vacancies.
The Welsh Deanery is one of four medical training schools across the UK which has been recruiting in India over this year.
The other deaneries involved cover the Severn area, the West Midlands and Northern Ireland. In total, they plan to take more than 100 junior doctors over to the NHS.
The deaneries are looking to recruit in areas such as paediatrics, obstetrics, gynaecology, anaesthesia, as well as accident and emergency.
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Tags: Overseas recruitment
Please bring them in, use them as clinical fellows to fill in gaps in rota. Then bring MTAS overnight on name of injustice against locals and throw them out.
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