Vice President Leni Robredo has expressed dismay over the proposal of the Department of Labor and Development to deploy health workers overseas in exchange for COVID-19 vaccines.
In her radio show Biserbisyong Leni on Sunday, Robredo noted that instead of merely doing"lip service," the government should be seeking ways to improve the working conditions in the health sector which often compel workers there to look for opportunities abroad.asked Robredo, urging the administration to instead consider improving the plight and other needs of workers in the health sector.
In an earlier Senate hearing, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the UK and Germany have requested to remove the 5,000 deployment cap that the Philippine government imposed on its healthcare workers in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, International Labor Affairs Bureau Director Alice Visperas said Bello set two conditions for this to happen — one of which is for their governments to send coronavirus vaccines to the Philippines.
Bello's proposal was met with fierce criticism from an organization of nurses, noting that they should not be treated like"commodities." The Duterte administration in April 2020 barred nurses, doctors, and other medical workers from leaving the Philippines to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The ban was lifted in November, but the government allowed only 5,000 health workers to leave annually.
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