PH top diplomat says to fight ban on deployment of Filipino health workers abroad

MANILA - Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said Saturday he would oppose and raise before the Cabinet the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration's move to suspend the deployment of Filipino health workers overseas while the country is fighting the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis.

The POEA governing board recently issued a resolution temporarily halting deployment of Filipino health care workers abroad until the national state of emergency due to the coronavirus disease 2019 is lifted and “until COVID-19-related travel restrictions are lifted at the destination countries.” Philippine hospitals have been overwhelmed by the need to respond to COVID-19 cases and suspected patients, so much so that the Department of Health had to call for volunteer doctors and nurses to join the fight.

The fight is not over. We will fight the ban in the IATF. We will fight the ban in Cabinet. We will fight shit for brains. We will never surrender our constitutional right to travel and our contractual right to work where there is need for our work. https://t.co/pokjlCs6Cf“The fight is not over. We will fight the ban in the IATF. We will fight the ban in Cabinet. We will fight s*** for brains,” he said.

Thank you @teddyboylocsin and @dododulay for our contacts this morning. I do hope we can resolve this issue so that brilliant Filipino healthcare workers, already employed by the #NHS, can get back to the UK to carry on with their jobs. https://t.co/GLMDbY7P87In a tweet, Pruce said: “Thank you @teddyboylocsin and @dododulay for our contacts this morning.

“Here we banned our nurses leaving for existing jobs abroad and gave 0 hour notice. Why? Because the element of surprise in attacking an enemy is key to victory. Our enemy is our underpaid, overworked, thoroughly abused nurses who fled our country for decent paying jobs abroad,” he said.

Mukhang pakitang tao lang ito. Bagong titulo: drama king.

The country needs your health care workers more than ever. Stop this nonsense. What's your agenda for doing this?😠😠😠

Sec teddyboylocsin has proven himself for the nth times that his loyalty rests upon what is right and just not to the admin or the party he's currently into. salute realFRONTLINERsupporter

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