Filipino skilled workers including healthcare professionals remain in high demand abroad.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) including healthcare professionals remain in high demand abroad including Europe and the Middle East.
POEA Administrator Bernard Olalia said that in the countries like UK and Germany the need for HCWs, particularly nurses, remains high.
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Olalia said, “In the Middle East, it is the same. The demand for our nurses is also high in countries such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Qatar, Kuwait.”
He said employers abroad are also looking for Filipino skilled workers and seafarers and in the seafaring industry the demand was good for those employed in the cargo vessels, transport vessels, petroleum vessels while cruise ships were slowly opening up.
Olalia said the deployment of Filipino workers overseas is slowly improving this year despite the pandemic and the comparison of the figures with the deployment last year and current one on a month-to-month basis shows an increase while there was a 74 percent decrease last year.
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He added that the deployment of land-based and sea-based workers is also slowly opening up as the host countries are starting to accept migrant workers.
Olalia said with respect to the land-based deployment they are no longer dropping more than 30,000 per month deployments while as for the sea-based sector they are witnessing 40,000 deployments every month. (AW)
