Health Secretary Ted Herbosa on Tuesday mentioned that the variety of nurses working within the Philippines could also be exhausted in a number of years, if the issue of them choosing higher paying jobs overseas will not be addressed.
This is why, Herbosa mentioned, he’s pushing to grant momentary licenses to board eligible nursing graduates and have them work as nurses in authorities hospitals.
He reiterated that 4,500 plantilla objects for nurses are presently vacant in over 70 hospitals of the Department of Health (DOH) nationwide.
“Kaya tinututukan ko na ngayon pa lang kasi kapag wala tayong ginawa ngayon, nakikita ko na in a few more years, maybe three or five years, ubos ang ating nurses. So kailangan ginagawan ko ng paraan para dumami ulit ang ating nurses,” he mentioned in a Super Radyo dzBB interview.
(That’s why I’m specializing in it proper now as a result of if we do not do something now, I can see that in a number of extra years, perhaps three or 5 years, our nurses will run out. So I’ve to discover a approach to improve our nurses once more.)
Herbosa is planning to absorb nursing graduates who scored 70-74% within the board examination to work for the federal government though they didn’t cross the examination, on condition that they retake and cross the board examination after a sure time period.
These momentary licensed nurses will then need to render as much as four-year return service to a authorities hospital after they cross their board examination earlier than they’re allowed to go overseas.
While stressing that hiring unlicensed nursing graduates is just a short lived answer to the exodus drawback, Herbosa mentioned there is likely to be a disaster within the subsequent years to come back if it isn’t addressed finally.
“I saw the figures, mas madami ‘yung umaalis kesa sa napo-produce natin [more nurses are leaving than what we are producing]. In a few more years, I don’t know how many but I think it can be counted by the fingers of one hand. In a few years, if we don’t do anything, maubusan tayo ng nurses [we will run out of nurses],” he added.
DOH data confirmed there have been 44,602 physicians and 178,629 nurses working within the nation, a far cry from Professional Regulatory Commission’s data exhibiting 95,000 licensed medical doctors and 509,000 licensed nurses.
The Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc. (PHAPI), in the meantime, mentioned that 40- 50% of nurses in non-public hospitals have resigned for increased pay within the final two years.
In May, former DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire bared that it could take 12 to 23 years for the nation to handle the scarcity of nurses and medical doctors, respectively.
For his proposal, Herbosa mentioned the beginning wage of the momentary licensed nurses might vary from P35,000 to P40,000, which is able to go increased with expertise.
He additionally mentioned the non-public sector has provided to shoulder the bills for the board evaluation of the eligible nursing graduates. —KG, GMA Integrated News
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