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| Job seekers wait to be interviewed by the ministry of health at the college of medicine, Blantyre Malawi |
The processes of recruiting medical assistants in Malawi
for the fight against COVID-19 were interrupted on Tuesday due to a heavy
turnout of youth seeking jobs.
Thousands
of job seekers flocked into different assigned places where they were supposed
to get interviewed for different posts that the government had offered.
However, due to the
high rate of unemployment in the country, thousands showed up hence
interruption in most places.
According
to reports from the local media, there was a stampede in different places as
people were fighting to get access to the interview premises.
Samuel Munthari, aged
21, said life is getting harder for him every day because of unemployment. On
Tuesday, Samuel was very optimistic that he would get a job because he believes
he has enough qualifications as required.
“I
think there is more to be done for us as the youth, we have the qualifications
but jobs are not there.
Today
we came with high hopes that we are going to be interviewed, but there is too
much of us and it’s obvious that most of us will not get interviewed,” said
Samuel.
Samuel,
who looked helpless added that his hope is in the government to offer him a job
since he has the job qualification.
Recently, President
Mutharika had announced that the government is going to employ two thousand
medical personnel to assist in the fight against COVID-19.
Meanwhile, both the president and opposition leaders have promised to create room for more jobs in order for the youth to get eased from the woes of unemployment. - Africa
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