Why does the world's top supplier of nurses face a shortage at home?

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The Philippines, one of the world’s largest providers of nurses, is in need of at least 106,000 nurses. That is according to the health department. Private hospitals are bearing the brunt - with an estimated 40 percent of their nursing workforce leaving to work abroad in the past three years.
Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Lo reports from Lipa City, the Philippines.
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3 окт 2024

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@LeoCloma Год назад

I still don't understand why there is an economic disequilibrium in the nursing market in the Philippines. Shortage of nurses, but nursing wages very low, and employers unwilling to raise wages, which if they did would bring the market into a natural equilibrium. What's missing?

@LeoCloma Год назад

@@julm7744 That's precisely the point -- not allowing the economic equilibrium to be achieved (by, in this case, not paying the true market wage) is what is causing the shortage of nursing labor. If hospitals were serious about addressing the nursing shortage, they would raise wages to eliminate the shortage.

@LeoCloma Год назад

@@julm7744 I feel that it's irrational for private hospitals to not raise wages, because the dampened wages cause staff shortages, which affect operations, which then ultimately damage their profitability. Unless these private hospitals really don't care to survive and become going concerns.

@LeoCloma Год назад

@@josepanicucci8591 Although it is only tangentially related to this discussion, I agree with you. I am one of the many who, nearly four decades ago, preferred a public trial and swift punishment (including capital penalties) afterwards. And to be fair to the vast majority of today's electorate, my hypothesis is that there was massive and systematic cheating in the last election, which resulted in the evil ones being back in power, contrary to what voters really wanted. Pure evil, then and now.

@ksoosk Год назад

Nurses are unfortunately at the bottom of the food chain in the Philippines. Private hospitals can pay their shareholders, managers and doctors handsomely while breadcrumbs are given to the nurses and other medical staff. Nursing is a big scam. Student nurses pay exorbitant tuition fees and pay for their own internship. After graduating, they pay review centers to pass the nursing board exam. After passing this exam, they need to pay hospitals to be able to train in their prestigious traineeship programs because not a lot of hospitals abroad hire nurses without work experience. If they aspire to go abroad, they also need to pay agencies and review centers. Hospitals know this and they let this happen because they think there would always be fresh student nurses and graduates that they can exploit and even generate income from. Disgraceful practice really. Coupled by a government that focused their policies for decades on ballooning the economy through OFW remittances. Giving OFWs their exemptions and priority lanes everywhere. Oh but wait, UK, US and other nurses working in the West are immigrants. So, you go back home for a vacation and you are not even treated as an OFW. You don't get these exemptions and priority lanes because people think you already earn too much. Nurses are in words one of the most prestigious professions in the Phil. Although in practice, they are the most exploited.

@pluckybellhop66 Год назад

When will those who do the real work make real money?

@carloregalado7751 Год назад

these private hospitals are making billions of pesos every year but can't or won't pay the nurses a decent salary.

@josemarianelsoncortez6725 4 месяца назад

FOR THEY CANNOT PROVIDE ENOUGH COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS FOR NURSES...PLUS POLITICAL INFLUENCE AND JOB SECURITY...YOU WILL ONLY END AS CONTRACTUAL WORKERS ...

@hassanharith6820 Год назад

Seem imbalance of ' man power / nurse distribution ' post Covid 19 Pandemic & due to economic recession. * Hope the new initiative to ' standardise the salary ' 🇵🇭 could encourage people in the new recruitment.