Presidential aspirant Senator Manny Pacquiao said Tuesday he will push for P50,000 pesos as the standard monthly salary of nurses in the Philippines.​ Pacquiao said he will do that so Filipino nurses will no longer go abroad and only give their services to the people. "Ang gobyerno ang...
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), on Tuesday, April 12, announced that all new passers of the Nurse Licensure Examination are set to have their virtual oathtaking on April 28. (PRC / Manila Bulletin) PRC, in an advisory, said that it will be conducted at 1 p.m. via Microsoft Teams or...
Philippine Ambassador to the United States (US) Jose Manuel Romualdez bared that there are at least 100,000 pending visas for Filipino health workers intended for deployment in the US. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Romualdez said these are nurses that have been approved to go to the US...
PROMDI party presidential aspirant Sen. Manny Pacquiao on Monday, Jan. 10 vowed to push for a P50,000-minimum pay for nurses, medical technologists and other health care professionals to keep them serving the country instead of going abroad for greener pasture. Sen. Manny Pacquiao Rostrum Pacquiao...
President Duterte has invited nurses from the New People's Army (NPA) to "come down" and help the government in its response to the pandemic amid the soaring cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). President Rodrigo Duterte addresses the nation on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (Malacañang photo) In...
Let nurses run for Congress. Nurses United Partylist FB Nurses belonging to Nurses United Party-List issued this call to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday, Nov. 22. "Nurses and health workers are called heroes but we have not been valued. Our salaries remain low. It is disheartening...
The Philipppine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has suspended anew the deployment of Filipino nurses and healthcare workers abroad as the 6,500 cap set for the year has been reached. (Jansen Romero / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) "Inabot na natin yung deployment cap. Nagkaroon tayo ng (We...
Anakalusugan Rep. Michael Defensor said on Friday that more Filipino nurses are seeking to practice their profession in America. A total of 5,957 Filipino nurses took the US licensure examination for the first time from January to September 2021. According to Defensor, based on the figures from the...
The Department of Health (DOH) said Friday, Oct. 22, that it values the role of nurses in the country’s fight against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Over 100 doctors and nurses from San Miguel Corporation (SMC) were deployed to 11 Metro Manila vaccination sites that include Mandaluyong City,...
Former Vice President and senatorial aspirant Jejomar Binay urged the government on Wednesday to hasten the distribution of the long-awaited allowances and benefits of the country's nurses and health care workers (HCWs). Former Vice President Jejomar Binay "Nurses are leaving their jobs during this...
Quezon City Representative Alfred Vargas has asked Congress to urge the Department of Health (DOH) and other relevant government agencies to take immediate steps to address the alarming number of nurses and other health care workers leaving the country in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In...
A total of 154 Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) nurses were deployed in the country’s 27 private hospitals to augment the shortage in hospital personnel as more health workers have been getting infected by the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya explained...
