Government intends to spend up to P2.8 billion in 2013 to engage and deploy 22,500 nurses, 4,379 midwives and 131 physicians under the expanded Doctors to the Barrio and Rural Health Practices Program.
“We welcome the increased deployment of professionals which will surely improve the delivery of badly needed healthcare services to underserved communities, while providing temporary jobs and extra training to our unemployed nurses and midwives,” Ty said.
“We are hopeful the additional knowledge and skills our nurses and midwives will gain from the program will assure them of highly rewarding jobs here or abroad, once they’ve completed their tour of duty,” he added.
Ty represents the sectoral party LPG Marketers’ Association (LPG-MA) in Congress, and is author of House Bill 4582, which seeks to establish a special jobs plan for the nation’s more than 300,000 unemployed nurses.
Ty’s proposed Special Program for the Employment of Nurses in Urban and Rural Services (NURSE) will deploy another 10,000 practitioners every year.
They will each serve a six-month tour of duty, and get a monthly stipend not lower than the amount commensurate to the higher starting pay for public nurses mandated by a 2002 law.
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