Brecon War Memorial Hospital has welcomed six internationally trained nurses from India, who have recently joined the team on Y Bannau ward.

Sheeja, Reshma, Sibi, Jayalekshmi, Abida and Ardra all moved to the UK earlier this year and have now settled into life in Brecon. The group marks the first cohort of international nurses to join Powys Teaching Health Board in the south of the county, and the third group overall to arrive.

A spokesperson for the health board said: “Nurses and healthcare Support Workers are the backbone of the NHS. However, it isn’t always easy to recruit nursing staff to rural areas. Therefore Powys Teaching Health Board has widened its recruitment to identify highly trained and fully qualified nurses from overseas.”

The nurses said that they have found some things a little different from working and living back home, but they very much enjoy being here.