The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has temporarily suspended the deployment of healthcare workers abroad in a bid to ramp up health workforce in the country in time of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis.
The POEA’s governing board released Resolution No. 09, series of 2020, which resolved that the deployment of healthcare workers is suspended “until the national state of emergency is lifted and until the COVID-19-related travel restrictions are lifted at the destination countries.”
The move is “to support the national objective of controlling the spread of COVID-19 through the regulation in the deployment of Filipino healthcare workers through mission critical skills (MCS) framework and to prioritize human resource allocation for the national healthcare system at the time of the national state of emergency.”
Covered in the temporary deployment ban are the following:
Medical doctor/physician
Nurse
Microbiologist
Molecular biologist
Clinical analyst
Respiratory therapist
Pharmacist
Laboratory technician
X-ray/radiologic technician
Nursing assistant/nursing aid
Operator of medical equipment
Supervisor of health services and personal care
Repairman of medical-hospital equipment
The POEA also suspended the bilateral labor agreements for government-to-government deployment of healthcare workers until the duration of the national state of emergency.
“It is of paramount national interest to ensure that the country shall continue to have, sustain the supply, and prepare sufficient health personnel to meet any further contingencies, especially to replace, substitute or reinforce existing workforce currently employed, deployed or utilized locally,” the POEA said.
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