'Burnt out': Philippine nurses battle COVID-19, resignations

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MANILA: Exhausted nurses in the Philippines are struggling to care for patients as colleagues contract COVID-19 or quit a profession that was dangerously understaffed even before the pandemic. The country is enduring a record rise in infections, fuelled by the Delta variant, with the health department repo

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MANILA: Exhausted nurses in the Philippines are struggling to care for patients as colleagues contract COVID-19 or quit a profession that was dangerously understaffed even before the pandemic.

"At the start of the pandemic, we had almost 200 nurses," said Banaga, director for nursing services at the Lipa Medix Medical Center in Batangas province.Official figures show that 75,000 nurses are working in public and private Philippine hospitals, but roughly 109,000 more are needed.

More than 5,000 nurses have been given the green light to go abroad this year after a COVID-19 ban was replaced with a cap to ensure that enough nurses were available in the Philippines."We can't get additional nurses, we can't compel them to apply," said Jose Rene de Grano of the private hospitals association.In recent weeks, health workers have protested over unpaid benefits, including a coronavirus special risk allowance. Abenojar said that many were still waiting.

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