The Department of Health (DOH) will hire nursing assistants to help address the nurse shortage in government hospitals.
The Department of Health will hire nursing assistants to help address the nurse shortage in government hospitals.
"Mayroon nang ganoong proposal because they have been studying this problem on how to augment health human resource. It's Salary Grade 9, so that's about P20,000 yung salary per month. It's the one being offered as a solution, so I said that's going to go forward. It will be open to nurses who graduated four years of college but are still awaiting to pass the exams," said Health Secretary Ted Herbosa.
The Professional Regulation Commission previously said that the DOH secretary cannot issue temporary work permits to unlicensed nurses based on the Philippine Nursing Act of 2002.
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