Ikinalungkot ang nurse shortage sa bansa…‘PINAS BIKTIMA NG SARILING TAGUMPAY – PBBM

Naniniwala si Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr., na naging biktima ng sarili nating tagumpay ang Pilipinas sa panahon ng COVID-19 pandemic.

Ayon kay Marcos, marami sa lider ng mga bansa ang nanghihingi ng tulong sa Pilipinas para mag-deploy ng maraming Filipino nurses at medical practitioners sa abroad.

Subalit, may ilang plano na ang Department of Health (DOH) kung papaano reresolbahin ang problema, saad niya sa mga miyembro ng Business Executives for National Security (BENS) sa Malacañang.

The Philippines became “a victim of our own success” during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Marcos Jr. said many world leaders asked for the country’s help to deploy more Filipino nurses and medical practitioners abroad.

But, Department of Health (DOH) has already some plans on how to resolve the problem, he told the members of the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) in Malacañang.

Ang BENS, na isang 10-member business group sa Estados Unidos at itinatag noong 1982, ay kasalukuyang nasa Pilipinas hanggang Huwebes para talakayin sa mga Filipino leaders ang mga potensiyal na lugar para sa investment at cooperation sa bansa.

“Unfortunately, in terms of healthcare workers, we have become victims of our own success in that the Filipinos did really well during the pandemic. And so every leader I meet says ‘can we have more Filipino med techs, doctors, and nurses?’ So we’re having a shortage here,”  ayon sa Pangulo.

“So we are trying to find schemes so as to alleviate that problem. One of the things our DOH has come up with is that we are coming to an arrangement with countries who will accept Filipino healthcare workers to at the same time train the equivalent number of healthcare workers that will stay in the Philippines,” dagdag niya.

Sinabi rin ni Marcos Jr, na sinikap din ng gobyerno na pabilisin ang board examinations ng mga nurse.


“That’s the adjustment that we are trying to make. So it’s not only in the facilities, it’s also in the training. We are very proud of them but we wish they’d stay home.”

Sinabi rin ng Chief Executive sa BENS na layon ng kanyang administrasyon na magtayo ng mas maraming ospital sa malalayong lugar.

“We are groundbreaking a big multi-specialty hospital just outside Manila soon and we are going to open more of them as annexes hospitals,” saad niya.

“I’m always been a great believer of bringing healthcare down to the grassroots level. Right now, there is a tendency for us to only go to the hospital when it is absolutely necessary. So healthcare has become an important part of this administration efforts,” dagdag ni Marcos Jr.