Hospital offers Nurses P750 a day, perks in Mindanao

Due to Shortage of Registered Nurses !

Many registered nurses (RN) in Luzon are exploited.

In Dagupan City alone there is that hospital that accepts RNs to work there for six months by paying P45 thousand to the owner of the medical facility.

Consequently, the management will give the nurse a certificate that he or she worked in that hospital for one or two years.

Filipino nurses take their oath as licensed practitioners. Photo Credit: Nurses Update

The recipient uses the certificate in applying for work overseas.

This malpractice by hospital owner happened because of the Law on Supply and Demand.

The same Law that Former President Joseph Estrada (or was it Senator Manny Pacquiao?) wanted Congress to abolish because of the inflation it brought to the country, but that’s another story.

But in North Cotabato Province, a doctor and owner of a huge hospital there complained to then Department of Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial about the liberal policy of the government in allowing those new graduates and licensed nurses to go abroad.

Because of this migration liberality, there is a dearth of nurses there to serve the needy patients in hospitals.

Doctor Cecile Rodrigo Roldan, owner of the swanky  Roldan Hospital in M’lang, Cotabato Province, told me by phone she and fellow doctors in the Central Mindanao province agreed that nurses should be required to serve the country, say for two years,  before they are allowed to go abroad.

“There is a shortage of nurses that I pay a nurse from our town five hundred pesos (P500) for an eight hours a day work,” she cited on the sum that is a minimum wage already in Metro Manila.

That pay in M’lang, town of Agriculture Secretary Manny Pinol, Former Health Secretary Ubial, and yours truly, is at par with the minimum wage of P300 in Pangasinan.

So who wants to be employed there by getting more than twice of your pay here? The cost of living there is much lower in Pangasinan and other provinces in Northern Luzon. A serving of food in a turo-turo restaurant in the burgeoning Davao City, like the vaunted Tunang Kilawin, could fetch only for P25.

The P300 a day in Pangasinan is equivalent to P500 if you considered the inflationary factors in Metro Manila. The P500 in M’lang is already P900 a day if one works in the jungle asphalt of the Metropolis.

Nurses in the Cordillera Region and Region 1 who are exploited and fleeced by hospital owners can go instead in North Cotabato with even their plane’s ticket shouldered by my doctor friend whose paternal grandfather hailed from the Rodrigos Clan in San Nicolas, Pangasinan.

Here the perks she dangled: P750 on 12 hour shifting, free meals, free housing, free plane ticket including contributions to the Social Security System, Philhealth Insurance, and Pag- Ibig.

Doctor Roldan said applicant can contact mobile phone number 091896 24936.

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