Philippines Imposed Total Ban on Nurses Deployment Abroad
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Philippines Imposed Total Ban on Nurses Deployment Abroad
@healthbiztips by Arlene Gentallan
The Philippines, faced with a mounting rise in Covid-19 cases recorded to be the highest in Southeast Asia, has imposed a total ban on Nurses deployment abroad.
Medical and allied health workers are now completely banned from leaving the Philippines to work abroad as imposed by the Inter Agency Task Force (IATF) and Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) through Board Resolution No. 09, series of 202. This sanction stands for all health care workers, except for those who have a signed overseas contract prior to March 8, 2020 and this restriction stands until the emergency brought about by Covid-19 pandemic is lifted.
The following health care workers have overseas deployment ban:
- Medical Doctor / Physician
- Nurse
- Microbiologist
- Molecular biologist
- Medical technologist
- Clinical analyst
- Respiratory therapist
- Pharmacist
- Laboratory technician
- X-ray / Radiologic technician
- Nursing assistant / nursing aid
- Operator of medical equipment
- Supervisor of health services and personal care
- Repairman of medical-hospital equipment
This ban was intended to save Philippine’s struggling health care system in the fight against Covid-19. However, at one end is the Philippine’s struggling nurses who are faced with meagre compensation, unrealized salary increase, poor work condition, high patient load, inadequate PPEs, temporary employment opportunity, stigma, possible breach of contract from overseas employer who already sent a letter to President Rodrigo Duterte to reconsider this ban.
