MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) pushed for an "aggressive" deployment of nurses overseas given the "large surplus" of nurses in the country.
"We would prefer the aggressive overseas deployment of nurses over the semi-skilled and unskilled workers, such as domestic helpers," TUCP president and former senator Ernesto Herrera said in a statement Thursday, May 29.
Herrera cited numbers from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration which said the country – "one of the world’s largest producers of English-speaking nurses" – sends an average of 12,000 nurses abroad annually.
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