MORE health care workers will be allowed to leave the country after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases raised the annual cap on their deployment.
"The Inter-Agency Task Force on Thursday, June 17, 2021, increased the annual deployment ceiling of new hire healthcare workers for Mission Critical Skills to 6,500," Presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said in a statement.Roque said HCWs falling under MCS with perfected contracts as of May 31 are included in the adjusted ceiling.
Healthcare workers under government-to-government labor agreements shall, however, be exempted, according to Roque. President Rodrigo Duterte lifted a deployment ban on HCWs in November but limited the number of those allowed to leave to ensure that there would be enough health care workers in the Philippines while the country is battling Covid-19.
Earlier this month, the government suspended the sending abroad of health workers after the 5,000 annual limit has been reached.
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