The country has a
“surplus” of health workers so far even as medical personnel with overseas work contracts are allowed to leave the country, according to a Palace official.
The government earlier decided to allow Filipino medical and allied healthcare professionals with overseas contracts as of March 8 to leave the country. The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration earlier issued a resolution temporarily suspending the deployment of all health care workers in view of the national health emergency.
“It would not be fair to deprive them of their livelihood on which their families depend for their subsistence,” he said. He said POEA has invoked the “paramount national interest to ensure the country shall continue to have, sustain the supply, and prepare sufficient health personnel to meet any further contingencies, especially to replace, substitute or reinforce existing workforce currently employed, deployed or utilized locally.”
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