Incentives eyed to prevent exodus of health workers

THE Department of Health will meet with the Department of Migrant Workers and the Department of Labor and Employment to discuss ways to create incentives for Filipino health care workers and urge them not to leave the country.This comes as the country continues to experience a shortfall of health care workers, with a backlog of more than 106,000 nurses needed in both private and public hospitals across the country.

Vergeire also said that they do not want to expand the 7,500 annual health care worker deployment cap of the government.She noted that the deployment of nurses abroad is the main reason why there are shortages of health care workers in health facilities.She said that they are endorsing several bills in Congress that would give additional benefits to health care workers for them to remain in the country.

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