The exodus of Filipino nurses is likely to continue after President Aquino vetoed the measure that would have raised the minimum entry level pay of nurses to P26,000 a month. “President Aquino’s veto of consolidated House Bill 6411 and Senate Bill 2720 provides a minimum base pay for nurses of P26,000 per month will drive Filipino nurses to licensed recruitment agencies offering a minimum of P35,000 a month,” recruitment advocate Emmanuel Geslani said in a statement. Citing data from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), Geslani noted a steady increase in the deployment of Filipino nurses since 2012 in foreign destinations who pay nurses well. Filipino nurses (MB File Photo/ Photo by Ariel Fernandez) “Deployment of Filipino nurses abroad continues to rise in the past years – 15,655 in 2012, 16,444 in 2013 and 19,815 in 2014. Though POEA has not posted the 2015 statistics the figure is expected to [...]
