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Filipino nurses gather at Westminster Abbey on May 12 for the 60th Florence Nightingale Commemoration Service, celebrating International Nurses Day. (Photo by Clement Ngu)

CLEMENT NGU

LONDON -- Ali Hussain made the painful decision to leave his parents behind in Pakistan for the U.K. over four years ago to complete his training to be a doctor, looking forward to settling in a country he thought was politically more stable.

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