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Healthcare workers in the Philippines are chronically understaffed, underpaid, and overworked. If these difficulties are not addressed, there may be a huge outflow from the profession.
https://theowp.org/filipino-healthcare-workers-pushed-to-their-limits/

Filipino Healthcare Workers Pushed To Their Limits Allegations over the government’s mismanagement of COVID-19 emergency funding have pushed embattled Filipino healthcare workers to the tipping point. Taking appropriate protective measures, protest…

The pandemic, on the other hand, has thrown medical worker migratory patterns into chaos. Despite the fact that the pandemic caused record worldwide demand for medical workers, the Philippine government tightened labor movement restrictions as a result of the crisis at home.
https://www.aseanbriefing.com/news/how-covid-19-has-impacted-philippine-medical-worker-recruitment/

How COVID-19 Has Impacted Philippine Medical Worker Recruitment The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed how medical workers from the Philippines are working, both at home and abroad. Read on to learn more.

The causes for the decrease in the number of nurses in the country were not exclusive to mass resignations, career changes, and deployments.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1505208/nurses-exodus-hailed-as-heroes-treated-like-peons

Nurses’ exodus: Hailed as heroes, treated like peons MANILA, Philippines—National Nurses Week recently gained more relevance as more Filipino nurses resigned and searched for greener pastures overseas out of frustration at being showered with

Low pay, according to labour unions, are a key disincentive. Many nurses say they would prefer to work overseas or in other businesses that provide higher pay. As the pandemic worsens, nurses urge for long-term solutions that acknowledge health-care workers as the industry's backbone.
https://www.dw.com/en/philippines-nurses-threaten-mass-resignation-amid-covid-surge/a-59028522

Philippines: Nurses threaten mass resignation amid COVID surge | DW | 30.08.2021 Saying they are overworked and underpaid, health care workers across the Philippines are threatening to walk off the job unless they receive benefits promised by the government.

The Philippines government put a deployment restriction on nurses, preventing them from working abroad. Silvestre Bello, the labor minister, emphasized that the government cannot afford to lose the "services of our nurses" during the height of the coronavirus outbreak. Thousands of 'prisonurses' (a phrase derived from the term "prisoners") have petitioned for the restriction to be lifted.

Nurses in the Philippines have been demanding for decent pay for over two decades.

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Nurses in the Philippines: Underpaid and unprotected from COVID-19 while saving lives In April 2020, the Philippines government imposed a deployment ban on nurses, blocking them from taking on jobs overseas. The labour minister, Silvestre Bell...

For everyone who is curious on what's the meaning of our page name, here it is!

Overworked! Overstressed! Underpaid!

The 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 of Synigoria gia Nosileftes

The general public is clueless of the terrible status of nurses in the Philippines. The country's underpaid nurses were previously well-known, but COVID-19 pandemic brought it to attention.

Together, we raise community awareness about the reality of nurses in the Philippines by demonstrating the struggle of nurses in the midst of the pandemic who are underpaid despite risking their lives to serve, as well as how this sort of situation affects them.