Recruiters offer way to ease nurses' oversupply

MANILA, Philippines — Manpower export agencies on Saturday offered apprentice training in overseas hospitals for Filipino nurses to ease the country’s swelling number of licensed but unemployed nurses.

In a statement, the Federated Association of Manpower Exporters or Fame said the program is a “stopgap measure" that would provide the necessary training for the licensed nurses needed for employment abroad.

"The recruitment industry has come up with a solution that will ease the surplus of licensed nurses and give them the two-year training required by foreign countries," said Jackson Gan, yice president of the group.

"Recruitment agencies with their client hospital abroad are more than willing to accept the nurses in order to fill the large gap now being experienced by foreign hospitals in the Middle-East and Singapore," said Gan.

Labor officials have said the Philippines has an excess of tens of thousands of licensed nurses, and the number is expected to grow further as the country’s 400 nursing schools continue to churn our fresh graduates

Last June, more than 28,000 examinees passed the licensure exam for nurses and most of these are expected to remain unemployed for some time due to lack of vacancies.

Officials attributed the swelling number of unemployed nurses to a slowdown in hiring of foreign nurses in the United States and United Kingdom since 2006.

Because of lack of government and private hospitals in the country, Fame official said many nurses are forced to work in call and medical transcriptions centers sprouting in the country.

Recruitment consultant Lito Soriano said it is not surplus of nurses that is plaguing the industry but rather a lack of qualified nurses who can work abroad.

He said that the program can help solve such problem because many military and private hospitals in the Middle East are equipped with the latest medical technology suitable for apprentice training for nurses.

He said his own recruitment agency specializes in supplying military and private hospitals in Saudi Arabia.

"These hospitals follow the US procedures and offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits like annual paid vacation leaves, free food and accommodation," Soriano said. - GMANews.TV

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