DOCTORS are being offered double the average pay to work with migrants arriving in the UK aboard small boats, it has been revealed.
One advert promises GPs £640 a day for shifts at where asylum seekers arrive and are processed.
It works out at £166,400 a year compared to from £76,038 to £114,743.
It is being paid by private firm DrPA Secure — which has a £60million ten-year government deal.
A nurse role was also advertised which worked out at £57,060 a year, compared to up to £42,000.
The Home Office said the roles aim “to ease pressures on local communities and service”.
DrPA and NHS England were contacted for comment.
In October The Sun revealed taxpayers would be for the latest deal with Doctor PA to fund health care for migrants arriving across the Channel.
The deal has an option to run until 2035, signalling that the Government expects the migrant crisis to continue after this Parliament is due to end in 2029.
Facilities in Dover have recently undergone renovations, with a new jetty where Border Force boats dock.
is the first processing centre for small boat arrivals where they are given dry clothes to change into and an initial health check.
Staff are increasingly seeing people arriving with burns from the engine fuel which has become toxic when mixed with sea water.
From there migrants are taken to Manston, a former RAF base in Kent, where they are then interviewed for initial asylum claims.
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