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Austria tatanggap muli ng Pinoy nurses

Austria tatanggap muli ng Pinoy nurses

Hector Pascua | TFC News Austria

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Updated Oct 15, 2022 06:13 PM PHT

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VIENNA - Matapos ang halos apat na dekada, muling nagbukas ang Austria para sa Pinoy nurses. Ayon sa Austrian Chamber of Commerce, mangangailangan ang bansa ng may 75-libong healthcare workers.

Isa ang Pilipinas sa mga bansang maaring tumugon sa pangangailangang ito.

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Katunayan, nagsimula na ito kamakailan.

Sa makasaysayang salo-salo sa Philippine Embassy sa Vienna, nagkaroon ng simple pero nakahulugang pagtitipon para sa pagbabalik ng Filipino nurses sa work force ng Austria. Dumalo sa pagtitipon ang pitong Pinoy nurses, mga kinatawan ng embahada, Austrian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, recruitment agencies, Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) at iba pang stakeholders.

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“This welcome breakfast is dedicated to our very own Filipino nurses fresh from the Philippines,” sabi ni Maria Corina Buñag, labor attache, POLO-Milan.

Mismong ang chief ng International Skilled Workers Offensive ng Austrian Chamber of Commerce and Industry ang sumalubong sa Pinoy nurses.

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“I think it is a great opportunity for Filipino nurses because we have in Austria a huge demand for skilled labor especially in the health sector. We expect in the next 8 years a demand of 75,000 health care workers. So we are very happy and proud to welcome these Filipino nurses in Vienna,” sabi ni Mag. Maximilian Buchleitner ng Austrian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Maging ang European- based recruitment agency na gumagabay sa Pinoy health workers, nagpapasalamat sa mabilis na pag-arangkada ng programa ng pagbubukas ng oportunidad sa trabaho para sa Pinoy health care workers.

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Handa rin silang umalalay sa mga Pilipinong nais mag-apply sa kanilang agency.

“With the experience that we gain from the pilot program now, we can extend, we can scale it. We have training capacities in the Philippines. We teach and we want to also deploy hundreds of nurses in the next couple of years,” sabi ni Matthias Hallerbach, C and C Human Resource Development.

Lahat ng mga bagong dating na nurses ay made-destino sa isang private home care facility sa Upper Austria, apat na oras ang layo sa Vienna. Bago sumabak sa trabaho dadaan sila sa orientation at paghahasa ng kanilang kaalaman sa German language.

Handa naman ang foundation na umagapay sa Pinoy health workers na gusto ring makasama ang pamilya sa Austria.

“We are happy to have Filipino nurses here in Austria. We offer them a good place to work here so that they can work and stay for us permanently and their families are also welcome. They have a secure job here in Austria and good working conditions (Isinalin sa Ingles mula Aleman),” sabi ni Doris Kollar-Plasser, Regional Chief, Stiftung Liebenau.

Kaya ng Pinoy

Payo ng mga bagong dating na nurses sa mga balak mag-apply sa Austria: seryosohin ang pag-aaral ng wikang Aleman.

“Yung pag-learn ng German, ‘yun ang mahirap kasi nag-work pa kami. Tapos yung online class namin, yan yung mahirap na part,” sabi ni Kathe Cabrera, Pinay nurse mula Cebu.

Nahirapan man, nakaya nila ang mga hamon. Kaya rin daw ng mga Pinoy na sasabak dito.

“So ini-expect that we can improve our German language especially since we are already here in Austria and we would be able to stay longer here and enjoy our time,” sabi ni Hillary Reginio, mula Davao.

Buo rin ang kanilang loob na harapin ang anumang hamon o adjustment.

“Malamig, pero I think we can manage,” sabi ni Ronnel Ann Alfonso, taga-Rizal.

“Ini-expect namin na magkaroon kami ng kaunting culture shock at the start, pero as Filipinos, I know we can easily adapt din. And we know that Austria has a better health care system than the Philippines,” wika ni Cherry Mae Bayaca, taga-Makati.

“We expect that we can adapt well naman since we have the Philippine Nurses Association here. So, I think we can do this,” sabi ni Leslie Larga mula Taguig.

Handa naman ang embahada na umalalay sa mga pangangailangan ng nurses. Taong 1973 nagkaroon ng kasunduan ang Pilipinas at Austria sa pagpapadala ng Pinoy nurses na nag-expire naman noong 1985.

Sa tala naman ng embahada, may mahigit anim na libo na ang Filipino nurses at Pinoy caregivers sa Austria.

Para sa mga interesadong mag-apply, bisitahin ang website ng Philippine Embassy sa Vienna o makipag-ugnayan sa POLO Milan.

Para sa mga nagbabagang mga balita tungkol sa ating mga kababayan sa Austria, tumutok sa TFC News sa TV Patrol.

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'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: NASA

'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: NASA

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This handout picture provided by NASA on January 31, 2025 shows asteroid 2024 YR4 as observed by the Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology on January 27, 2025. Handout/NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope/New Mexico Institute of Technology/Ryan/ AFP

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday -- making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting.

Despite the rising odds, experts say there is no need for alarm. The global astronomical community is closely monitoring the situation and the James Webb Space Telescope is set to fix its gaze on the object, known as 2024 YR4, next month.

"I'm not panicking," Bruce Betts, chief scientist for the nonprofit Planetary Society told AFP.

"Naturally when you see the percentages go up, it doesn't make you feel warm and fuzzy and good," he added, but explained that as astronomers gather more data, the probability will likely edge up before rapidly dropping to zero.

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2024 YR4 was first detected on December 27 last year by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile.

Astronomers estimate its size to be between 130 and 300 feet (40–90 meters) wide, based on its brightness. Analysis of its light signatures suggests it has a fairly typical composition, rather than being a rare metal-rich asteroid.

The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), a worldwide planetary defense collaboration, issued a warning memo on January 29 after the impact probability had crossed one percent. Since then, the figure has fluctuated but continues to trend upward.

NASA's latest calculations estimate the impact probability at 3.1 percent, with a potential Earth impact date of December 22, 2032.

That translates to odds of one in 32 -- roughly the same as correctly guessing the outcome of five consecutive coin tosses.

The last time an asteroid of greater than 30 meters in size posed such a significant risk was Apophis in 2004, when it briefly had a 2.7 percent chance of striking Earth in 2029 -- a possibility later ruled out by additional observations.

Surpassing that threshold is "historic," said Richard Moissl, head of the European Space Agency's planetary defense office, which puts the risk slightly lower at 2.8 percent.


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"It's a very, very rare event," he told AFP, but added: "This is not a crisis at this point in time. This is not the dinosaur killer. This is not the planet killer. This is at most dangerous for a city."

Data from the Webb telescope -- the most powerful space observatory -- will be key in better understanding its trajectory, said the Planetary Society's Betts.

"Webb is able to see things that are very, very dim," he said -- which is key because the asteroid's orbit is currently taking it out towards Jupiter, and its next close approach will not be until 2028.

If the risk rises over 10 percent, IAWN would issue a formal warning, leading to a "recommendation for all UN members who have territories in potentially threatened areas to start terrestrial preparedness," explained Moissl.

Unlike the six-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, 2024 YR4 is classified as a "city killer" -- not a global catastrophe, but still capable of causing significant destruction.

Its potential devastation comes less from its size and more from its velocity, which could be nearly 40,000 miles per hour if it hits.

If it enters Earth's atmosphere, the most likely scenario is an airburst, meaning it would explode midair with a force of approximately eight megatons of TNT -- more than 500 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb.

But an impact crater cannot be ruled out if the size is closer to the higher end of estimates, said Betts.

The potential impact corridor spans the eastern Pacific, northern South America, the Atlantic, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and South Asia -- though Moissl emphasized it is far too early for people to consider drastic decisions like relocation.

The good news: there's ample time to act.

NASA's 2022 DART mission proved that spacecraft can successfully alter an asteroid's path, and scientists have theorized other methods, such as using lasers to create thrust by vaporizing part of the surface, pulling it off course with a spacecraft's gravity, or even using nuclear explosions as a last resort.


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