By MARIA ALETA O. NIEVA - abs-cbnNEWS.com
The exodus of Filipino health professionals in search for better employment opportunities in other countries also leaves behind problems in helping the country meet its health care needs.
“As more Filipino health professionals migrate to developed countries, we lose the most educated, the most skilled, the ones with the highest [...]

The Philippine embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has met with Filipino nurses who were allegedly terminated from their work for failing to pass clinical assessment tests in Abu Dhabi, an online news site reported Thursday.

By Lori Coolican, TheStarPhoenix.com
SASKATOON - That terrible winter they keep hearing about is months away. The paperwork hurdles, exams and interviews, anxious waiting and day-long journey to another hemisphere are finally behind them.

INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines—About 7,000 of the 27,765 nursing graduates who passed the June 2008 nursing licensure examination took their oath at the SMX Convention Center Tuesday.
In his speech, Marco Sto. Tomas, member of the Board of Nursing that administered the exam, said that nursing is a “caring profession.”

theasianpacificpost.com
As Canada ramps up its plans to hire Filipino medical professionals by the thousands, The Philippines’ health care system is on the brink of collapse, says Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan, former executive director of the University of the Philippine’s National Institute of Health.