dilemma in medical sector
Posted by lejla on March 14th, 2008
It’s so ironic that among the schools/universities here in the Philippines, Bachelor of Science in Nursing is the most overpopulated among all the courses. But then our hospitals are very lacking of nurses, or course we know the reason why… They all went abroad!
Let me stress out when nursing career was really a big hit since 2003 and with the directive of Philippine Government that a RN can only work abroad once he/she has served the country for two years. If I am not mistaken with my calculation, since 2003 there opened “special program (SP)” for nursing education to all graduates of a four-year course. This SP Course will be finish in two years time including two summer classes. With the rule imposed by the government of two-year service our hospitals could have at least enough nurses to accommodate patients, not to the point of having a ratio of 1:50. I’m telling you, this is really true especially in public hospitals. What’s really the most exasperating is that some hospitals are actually taking advantage of the situation. They will only hire you as their staff nurse once you have undergone six moths of training with them. Imagine, for that 6 months of training you are rendering your services yet you will be the one to pay the hospital for that training! And then, once you have completed your 6-month training, you are going to take examination for you to get officially hired, and with that examination you will AGAIN pay for it! Wow! then why do hospital employees still get their salary very delayed, nor always run out of medicines. I think there’s some sort of corruption in this matter. So, I really can’t blame why Filipino nurses went abroad to work there ‘coz aside from the fact that they are compensated 3 to 4 times much higher abroad, one factor also is because of the system here in our country. Imagine we don’t have enough modern equipments, and even medicines and lab supplies is always insufficient. I think the reason why we don’t have much medical discoveries is because the government lacks to provide support. How would they be able to conduct studies and researches if there’s always a deficiency in providing laboratory products and other scientific instruments.. Imagine another sector in the medical field, apart from the nurses’ situation has its own dilemma too.
Too bad that, us, Filipinos cannot get the benefits of “Pinoy Care” of our nurses, instead it is the foreign countries who can have this special care… lucky these foreign are for hiring Filipino nurses. It’s not easy to work abroad and leave your family here just get better pay, so I just hope that the government MUST find for a solution on this matter.
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