Newly hired nurses now allowed to leave the country
The
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has lifted a temporary ban
on the deployment of newly hired nurses.
In
Governing Board Resolution No. 17
dated December 7, 2020, the POEA allowed newly hired nurses, nursing aides, and
nursing assistants to go abroad. However, it said other workers in the medical
sectors are not included in the lifting of the temporary deployment ban.
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— Life of Maharlika (@LifeofMaharlika) December 8, 2020
Starting
January 1, 2021, the POEA will impose an annual deployment ceiling of 5,000 newly
hired Health Care Workers (HCWs) disaggregated by occupation this until such
time that Inter-Agency Task Force may decide to increase such ceiling.
Earlier,
the government implemented a ban on the sending of medical sector workers to
ensure that the country has an adequate number of such workers to respond to
the pandemic health crisis.