{"id":279739,"date":"2020-12-26T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T11:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=279739"},"modified":"2020-12-26T06:06:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T11:06:58","slug":"dole-slows-down-deployment-of-nurses-to-uk-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/26\/dole-slows-down-deployment-of-nurses-to-uk-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"DOLE slows down deployment of nurses to UK, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249926\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-wearing-blue-scrub-suit-and-mask-sitting-on-bench-3279197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249926\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-wearing-blue-scrub-suit-and-mask-sitting-on-bench-3279197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-wearing-blue-scrub-suit-and-mask-sitting-on-bench-3279197.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-wearing-blue-scrub-suit-and-mask-sitting-on-bench-3279197-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-wearing-blue-scrub-suit-and-mask-sitting-on-bench-3279197-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-wearing-blue-scrub-suit-and-mask-sitting-on-bench-3279197-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III said instead of suspending deployment, they decided to slow the sending of medical workers to the host countries. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The government is slowing down the deployment of Filipino nurses in Europe particularly the United Kingdom and Germany due to the threat of a new strain of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III said instead of suspending deployment, they decided to slow the sending of medical workers to the host countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the UK, it\u2019s risky at this time, and also in Germany. We are not suspending (deployment), we\u2019re just slowing it down,\u201d he said in a radio interview on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The DOLE chief said in case they allow the sending of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to the country where they will be employed, the worker has to sign a waiver, that he\/she knows the risk they are taking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe make sure that before they will be deployed, they have to sign a waiver, acknowledging that they know what they are getting into, the risks in the country where they are going and they will not blame us. It has to be a waiver,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that a new strain of the Covid-19 was found in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The government earlier banned the sending of medical sector workers to ensure that the country has an adequate number of health care workers as the need arises due to Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Early this month, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has lifted the temporary ban on the deployment of nurses.<\/p>\n<p>Through a Governing Board Resolution, it has allowed newly hired nurses, nursing aides, and nursing assistants to work abroad.<\/p>\n<p>It ordered that 5,000 healthcare workers (HCWs) be sent overseas every year starting early next year.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution also allowed the hiring of HCWs through government-to-government negotiations under bilateral agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The government is slowing down the deployment of Filipino nurses in Europe particularly the United Kingdom and Germany due to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279740,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279739\/revisions\/279740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}