Cap on health workers deployment can still be raised – DOLE

The government can still expand the recently approved 5,000-cap on the deployment of healthcare workers, subject to authorities' assessment of the COVID-19 situation in the country, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said Sunday.this is subject to regular assessment," Bello said in an interview on CNN Philippines'depende sa sitwasyon sa ating bansa.

[Translation: We can always expand the cap… probably we can raise to 7 or 8,000 depending on the situation in our country. When the situation improves, the pandemic eases, we can increase the number of our nurses and other medical workers to be deployed to other countries.]nurses and other medical workers to leave and work abroad, but noted only 5,000 can be deployed each year.

Lifted na kasi di tuloy ang implementation ng salary upgrade ng mga nurses!

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