New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS): Germany is opening its doors to international labour, particularly in medical care, as a majority of the country's population is ageing, an international consultant on vocational training of the country said here Friday.

“We have huge dearth of trained manpower in the medical care sector. We have recently got young trained nurses from China and the Philippines," said Jurgen Mannicke, consultancy Educon.

"There is also a pilot project being mulled by an Indian trainer along with a German trainer where they are planning to take around 20-30 trained people in medical care sector from India to Germany,” he added.

The Indian institute that is planning the project is Navkar.

“So far the German government had been very strict on migration. But we are a dying nation. We need influx from outside. Even the vocational trainers they complaint that they don't get young people to be trained. We have to open our borders to people from countries outside EU (European Union). We need young people,” Mannicke said.

The country already takes workers from Greece, Italy and Spain, but those are within EU region with which it shares common labour market.

He, however, mentioned that although the country is in 'demographic disaster' but it is very particular about the training of the migrant labourers and it needs to match German standards.

According to international reports, Germany is bracing itself for the loss of 5 million workers over the next 15 years.

Last year Germany's Ministry of Education and India's Ministry of Labours had gone into a collaboration wherein the former is imparting vocational training in India. Mannicke is involved in skill development project in the country.