The Philippines has offered to allow thousands of nurses and other health workers to work in the UK and Germany if the European nations send it much-needed Covid-19 vaccines. Manila, which is dealing with one of the highest coronavirus case-loads in Asia, currently limits the number of medical workers leaving the country to 5,000 per year, though has relaxed a total ban. Alice Visperas, director of the labour ministry's international affairs.
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Follow RT on The Philippines has offered to lift the cap stopping nurses and other healthcare workers from leaving the country if the United Kingdom and Germany send Covid-19 vaccines in exchange.
Though the country currently has a 5,000 person per year limit for healthcare workers leaving the country, International Labour Affairs Bureau Director Alice Visperas told Reuters the government was
“considering the request to lift the deployment cap” – but only if an agreement for at least 600,000 Covid-19 vaccines can be made.
The vaccines would be used
“to inoculate outbound workers and hundreds of thousands of Filipino repatriates.”
The concept of a nurses-for-vaccines swap was slammed by Filipino Nurses United official Jocelyn Andamo, who said she was
Manila, February 23
The Philippines will let thousands of its health-care workers — mostly nurses — take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate much-needed co