A total 300 applications have been received from nurses to work in the public sector, Health Minister Joseph Cassar said today.
He said in a statement that 50 were Maltese and they included those who had just completed their studies and others who applied to be registered yesterday.
On Monday these nurses will be called to embark on their duties shortly.
The other 250 applications were from foreign nurses. Half of them had already gone through the first phase of the selection process and were currently going through more detailed scrutiny. 46 of them, Pakistani, would be able to become staff nurses in the middle of next month.
The minister said that it was still waiting for the results of a call for international recruiting companies to identify more foreign nurses who wished to work in Malta.