Health Secretary Ted Herbosa on Tuesday said that the number of nurses working in the Philippines may be exhausted in a few years, if the problem of them opting for better paying jobs abroad is not addressed.
This is why, Herbosa said, he is pushing to grant temporary licenses to board eligible nursing graduates and have them work as nurses in government hospitals.
“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 said in a Super Radyo dzBB interview.who scored 70-74% in the board exam to work for the government even though they did not pass the exam, given that they retake and pass the board exam after a certain period of time.
While stressing that hiring unlicensed nursing graduates is only a temporary solution to the exodus problem, Herbosa said there might be a crisis in the next years to come if it is not addressed eventually.
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