No nurse surplus, only unqualified graduates–recruiters
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By Veronica Uy
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 16:22:00 09/01/2008
MANILA, Philippines — There is no surplus of 400,000 nurses in the country, but a dearth of qualified nurses that employers abroad would hire, the recruitment industry said Monday.
The reaction was to the earlier statement of Commissioner Ruth Padilla of the Professional Regulation Commission that the surplus was enough to meet the requirements of Saudi Arabia, Canada, the United States, and Europe.
To prove his point, Jackson Gan, vice president of the Federated Association of Manpower Exporters, said that the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has a standing, unfilled 20,000 job orders for nurses to the Middle East, Singapore, and Europe.
He said this was on top of the unfilled job orders from last year.
“While POEA has a current job order for 5,000 nurses to Saudi Arabia, it was able to fill up only 50 percent of the requirement last year. The POEA continues to receive job orders for nurses to Saudi Arabia, Norway, and Belgium,” he said.
Gan explained that Filipino nursing graduates were not qualified for these jobs abroad because they were either not trained or did not have two years work experience in big hospitals. He said the Philippines did not have enough government and private hospitals with a 250-bed capacity.
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