Locsin says nurses with existing contract abroad may now leave
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Locsin says nurses with existing contract abroad may now leave
Willard Cheng,
ABS-CBN News
Published Apr 13, 2020 07:56 PM PHT
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Updated Apr 13, 2020 10:51 PM PHT
MANILA - Nurses and other health workers with existing work contracts abroad can now leave the Philippines, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.
MANILA - Nurses and other health workers with existing work contracts abroad can now leave the Philippines, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.
“There you go. Godspeed nurses; spread the word by your examples: Filipina nurses are there, with their extraordinary caring, for all people wherever in need of them,” he said in a tweet.
“There you go. Godspeed nurses; spread the word by your examples: Filipina nurses are there, with their extraordinary caring, for all people wherever in need of them,” he said in a tweet.
Locsin however said applications are frozen until further notice.
Locsin however said applications are frozen until further notice.
DONE. NURSES, other health workers with existing contracts of work abroad can leave. Future applications frozen until further notice provided all our 450,000+ nurses—exceeding by 250,000 ideal WHO ratio of people-to-nurses—must be given employment. Ty Sal Panelo and Jun Esperon. https://t.co/S2mHyqrz87
— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) April 13, 2020
DONE. NURSES, other health workers with existing contracts of work abroad can leave. Future applications frozen until further notice provided all our 450,000+ nurses—exceeding by 250,000 ideal WHO ratio of people-to-nurses—must be given employment. Ty Sal Panelo and Jun Esperon. https://t.co/S2mHyqrz87
— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) April 13, 2020
He thanked presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo and National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon as he made the announcement on Twitter.
He thanked presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo and National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon as he made the announcement on Twitter.
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Locsin described as unconstitutional the POEA governing board’s resolution temporarily suspending the deployment of all health care workers until the national state of emergency due to COVID19 is lifted and “until COVID-19-related travel restrictions are lifted at the destination countries.”
Locsin described as unconstitutional the POEA governing board’s resolution temporarily suspending the deployment of all health care workers until the national state of emergency due to COVID19 is lifted and “until COVID-19-related travel restrictions are lifted at the destination countries.”
He added the ban will only make sense if “we pay them foreign rates” and if the country negotiates “first class work contracts for them.”
He added the ban will only make sense if “we pay them foreign rates” and if the country negotiates “first class work contracts for them.”
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration earlier released a memorandum suspending the deployment of doctors, nurses and healthcare workers abroad in the hopes of preserving the local frontline force against the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration earlier released a memorandum suspending the deployment of doctors, nurses and healthcare workers abroad in the hopes of preserving the local frontline force against the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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