a group of filipino medical practitioners is endorsing a bill in congress that requires new graduates of medicine and nursing courses to serve in philippine hospitals for at least two years before seeking employment overseas.
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in the same report, the philippine nursing association (pna) echoed the stand of pma but raised concern that job opportunities for medical professionals in the country might not be enough to accommodate fresh graduates.
"there should be jobs [for medical practitioners], but there are none," said leah paquiz, pna president.
"the government should create jobs for doctors and filipino nurses, as well as all medical practitioners," she added.
just a heads-up to fellow filipino nurses.
file your papers and get on the next available plane.
i wonder where they plan to put the 600,000 nurses who will be graduating in the next few years, when most nurses cannot find decent paying jobs in the philippines.
emphasis on decent paying.
there are lots of jobs, but indecently paying. because some hospitals will ask the nurse to pay the hospitals for the questionable privilege of working in these hospitals.
as for the poor unfortunate souls who once in their lifetime dreamt of being a doctor...and achieved that dream...never in their wildest nightmares did they envision that the md after their names will turn to albatrosses around their necks.
2 years is a long time to be held captive in as supposedly democratic country.
and they cannot even give these professionals decent pay.
