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CHED: Overseas demand for Filipino nurses 'is actually good news'

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Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="The National Kidney and Transplant Institute" s="" emergency="" room="" reaches="" full="" capacity="" on="" November="" mostly="" due="" to="" patients="" including="" those="" with="" leptospirosis="" and="" COVID-19.="" The="" medical="" center="" advised="" the="" public="" look="" for="" other="" hospitals="" as="" it="" deals="" patient="" overcapacity="" lack="" of="" manpower.="" Mark="" ABS-CBN="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/07/11/20221124-nkti-full-capacity-md-4.jpg"/><figcaption>The National Kidney and Transplant Institute&#x27;s emergency room reaches full capacity on November 24, 2022, mostly due to patients on dialysis, including those with leptospirosis and COVID-19. The medical center advised the public to look for other hospitals as it deals with patient overcapacity and lack of manpower. <em>Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) on Tuesday said overseas demand for Filipino nurses was &quot;actually good news&quot; and that the country was taking steps to prevent a local shortage of healthcare professionals. </p><p>&quot;The fact that our nurses are in demand abroad is actually good news because that means we produce world-class nurses. I think we should be worried if our professionals are not acceptable abroad,&quot; CHED Chairperson Prospero De Vera III said in a Palace briefing. </p><p>&quot;That means our educational system is not good. So it&#x27;s a good sign, we just have to manage it better by producing more nurses,&quot; he said when asked how government was addressing local brain drain in the healthcare sector. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/19/23/marcos-jr-many-countries-asking-for-ph-health-workers">Marcos Jr.: Leaders from all over the world asking for more PH health workers</a></li></ul><p>De Vera said government was working to increase the salary of nurses. </p><p>&quot;There should also be an effort to reskill the existing ones and see how many of those who fail the licensure tests can be assisted to pass it,&quot; he said. </p><p>Health Secretary Ted Herbosa recently vowed to give nurses a competitive salary that would encourage them to stay in the Philippines. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/13/23/doh-chief-vows-health-workers-will-get-due-benefits">&#x27;I&#x27;ll get on top of this&#x27;: DOH&#x27;s Herbosa says health workers will get due benefits</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/08/23/new-doh-chief-we-need-to-pay-our-nurses-correctly">New DOH chief: We need to pay our nurses correctly</a></li></ul><p>A group of private hospitals said they went into the COVID-19 pandemic with a 40 percent shortage of nurses. </p><p>Data gathered by the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group show that almost 6,000 Filipino nursing professionals went abroad despite a government-imposed deployment cap of 5,000 in 2020. </p><p>In the same year, COVID-19 restrictions and community lockdown forced the cancellation of the board exam. </p><p>Last April, a nurses&#x27; group reiterated its call for a <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/multimedia/photo/04/12/23/nurses-push-for-50k-living-wage">P50,000 entry level salary</a> and massive hiring to address understaffing. </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2715217" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><div style="text-align:center"><em><strong>Video from PTV</strong></em></div>

The CHED said overseas demand for Filipino nurses was 'actually good news' and that the country was taking steps to prevent a local brain drain.

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CHED: Overseas demand for Filipino nurses 'is actually good news'

Job Manahan,

ABS-CBN News

Published July 11, 2023 02:09 PM PHT

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Updated July 11, 2023 02:28 PM PHT

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