Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello supports the call to deploy more healthcare staff including nurses abroad.
Bello said he will recommend to the coronavirus task force on Thursday to raise the current cap of 5,000.
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“There are reasons to allow health workers to seek good jobs abroad. We will make sure we will not run out of nurses and doctors,” Bello said in a virtual briefing.
The nursing group Filipino Nurses United said that at least 4,000 nurses intending to work in Germany, the Middle East, Scotland, Japan, Singapore, the United States and Australia were barred from leaving the country after the government reached the cap of 5,000 workers this month.
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President Rodrigo Duterte has imposed a cap on the deployment of healthcare workers due to the prevailing state of health emergency in the Philippines. (TDT)
