Filipino nurses told: No job openings in New Zealand right now

Luisa Cabato 09/29/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino nurses seeking employment in New Zealand have been urged to exercise caution as the country currently lacks employment opportunities for foreign nurses or Internationally Qualified Nurses (IQNs). The warning came from the Embassy…

Mandaue City Health Office plans to hire more health professionals

Mary Rose Sagarino 01/31/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – The Mandaue City Health Office (MCHO) is planning to hire additional doctors, nurses and midwives who will especially be deployed in health centers and clinics in the 27 barangays here. Dr. Debra Maria…

More health workers slam confidential funds

Kathleen de Villa - Reporter 09/08/2023

As lawmakers scrambled to keep secret some government agency’s confidential funds, another healthcare workers’ group denounced the lack of funding for the salary increase of nurses and other medical personnel, which it said may help curb understaffing…

DOH may shelve plan to hire unlicensed nurses

Kathleen de Villa 06/24/2023

Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa on Friday said he would consider shelving his plan of allowing unlicensed nursing graduates to work in public hospitals should it fail to hurdle the “legal roadblocks.” At a press briefing, Herbosa pointed…

Not a nurse shortage, but a wage shortage

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 06/22/2023

Some senators criticized Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Teodoro Herbosa’s proposal last Tuesday to hire those who did not pass the nursing board exam as a temporary measure to address the nurse staffing shortage in the country.…

Zubiri: Want nurses to stay in PH? Then increase their salaries

Antonio Iñares 04/01/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Following President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s order for the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to address the mass exodus of Filipino nurses to explore employment opportunities abroad, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri has doubled…

CHEd eyes revamp of nursing program

Jane Baustista 03/31/2023

To address the lack of nurses in the country, the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) has proposed a shorter curriculum program, which will allow those who complete one to three years of nursing studies to get “exit…

Marcos orders CHEd to address shortage of nurses due to migration

Daphne Galvez 03/30/2023

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has ordered the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to address the shortage of nurses due to migration. During a meeting with the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC) Healthcare Sector…

Congressman Rama pushes for ‘Magna Carta of Private Health Workers’

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 01/27/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines —  Cong. Eduardo “Edu” Rama Jr. of Cebu City Second District has filed a measure seeking to increase the pay and to provide benefits for private healthcare workers. Congressman Rama filed his House Bill…

Bill seeks P50,000 monthly pay for public, private nurses

Julie Aurelio 09/11/2022

MANILA, Philippines — Heeding the call of nurses’ groups to increase the entry-level pay of nurses to keep them from going abroad, the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives has filed a bill seeking to set…

Nursing in crisis

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 07/19/2022

Upon giving birth to her second baby in a leading hospital last May, my youngest daughter and her husband languished for hours in the delivery room with no one attending to them, even as they already had…

Nurses lambast DOH over reduced benefits

Jane Bautista 01/24/2022

MANILA, Philippines — The Filipino Nurses United (FNU) criticized the Department of Health’s (DOH) One COVID-19 Allowance (OCA) program due to the scheme’s categorization that classifies health workers under high, moderate and low risk. “For us, all…

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