Just as Filipino nurses grapple with meager pay, poor working conditions, and low nurse-to-patient ratios, rich countries have become more aggressive in tempting them abroad. | Reuters
Hospitals and health facilities in the Philippines are now struggling to keep their best nurses and fill new positions.Several wards are closed in the hospital where Ignacio now works because of a shortage of nurses. Even emergency patients have to wait days for a bed.
The southeast Asian country would need an additional 127,000 nurses to meet the WHO target, the Health Ministry said.DOH: It will take 12 years for PH to solve shortage of nurses, 23 years for doctors At the end of 2022, some 170,000 nurses were working in private and public health facilities in the country, while more than 290,000 licensed nurses had left for other careers, the Health Ministry said.Despite domestic shortages, the Philippines is not included in the WHO’s list of countries with a shortage of healthcare workers. Foreign employers are discouraged from recruiting nurses from nations on the list.
“A lot of countries that the UK has looked to recruit from already have worse shortages, and that means that when they lose nurses, it really can have a detrimental impact on the ability of those countries to provide healthcare to their own people,” said Catton.
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