By Vito Barcelo – manilastandardtoday.com The number of Filipino nurses wanting to work in the United States dropped by 42 percent to 5,630 in 2011 from 9,789 the year before, a former labor leader and now a lawmaker said Monday. LPG party-list Rep. Arnel Ty said the 5,630 Filipinos who Read more »
visayandailystar.com State-run Philippine Health Insurance Corp. aims to recruit 600 nurses to provide superior “customer care” to members and dependents seeking treatment in accredited hospitals, a press release from the firm said. Philhealth president and chief executive officer Dr. Eduardo Banzon, said the nurses will be employed as part of Read more »
By Thea Angelie Braga At 25, I am still young. And I am in the Middle East. Every morning when I wake up, I try to convince myself that this is what I want. By “this” I mean being an overseas Filipino worker. Before I left the country, which must Read more »
By Jarius Bondoc About 230,000 nurses are jobless. They had taken four-year college courses and licensure tests, in the hope of landing stable work abroad. Alas, the greener pastures did not materialize. First the US, Australia and Japan foreign-worker quotas quickly were filled up. Then the US financial, European Read more »
abs-cbnNEWS.com A nurse, who graduated from Siliman University, became the very first Filipino to receive the prestigious Mary Seacole Development Award from the UK government. “To be given that prestigious award, I feel that I’ve actually done something to make us all Filipinos proud,” said Mylene Freires, an Read more »
