Published May 4, 2021, 12:02 AM
The Philippines is the leading exporter of nurses worldwide with 85 percent of nurses trained in the Philippines working overseas, mostly in Saudi Arabia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Migrant nurses contribute approximately $8 billion in remittances to the Philippine economy every year.
Despite the significant financial returns, this brain drain of world-class Filipino talent has also impaired the overall effectiveness of the country’s public health system.
In a bit of irony, the first person to administer the COVID-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom last December 2020 was a Filipina nurse, May Parsons, who has worked with the National Health Service for 24 years. Two other Filipina nurses, Charito Romano and Minnie Klepacz received the British Empire Medal (BEM) recently for their outstanding work to support their colleagues and the community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
SunStar 111 ONA nurses get P12,000 salary increase
SALARY HIKE. Some of the nurses of the Rafael Lazatin Memorial Medical Center who received salary increase. (Contributed photo)
+ February 25, 2021 ANGELES City Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin, Jr. said some 111 nurses assigned at the Rafael Lazatin Memorial Medical Center (formerly Ospital Ning Angeles or ONA) 19 permanent, four casual and 88 Contract of Service (COS) status have started receiving their P12,000 salary increase this January 2021.
All 19 permanent and four casual RLLMC nurses from Salary Grade (SG) 11 – equivalent to P22,316 – were upgraded to SG 15, with a monthly basic salary of P33,575.
Meanwhile, all 88 COS nurses receiving P20,000 basic monthly salary (SG10) were raised to SG 15, amounting to P32,000.
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