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  • Philippines sends nurses around the world but now its health care system is overwhelmed by coronavirus
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    here is an estimated shortage of 23,000 nurses nationwide, according to the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines

    The country’s death toll from Covid-19 has surged nearly fivefold since April 1 to 462, and the confirmed cases have tripled to 6,981
    There is an estimated shortage of 23,000 nurses nationwide, according to the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines
    The Philippines has six doctors for every 10,000 people, one of the lowest ratios in Southeast Asia. Photo: APThe Philippines has six doctors for every 10,000 people, one of the lowest ratios in Southeast Asia. Photo: AP
    The Philippines has six doctors for every 10,000 people, one of the lowest ratios in Southeast Asia. Photo: AP
    The Philippines
    is known for training nurses and exporting them to all corners of the world, but now the nation finds itself short-handed just as its number of coronavirus infections and deaths skyrocket.
    The country’s death toll from Covid-19 has surged nearly fivefold since April 1 to 462, and the confirmed cases have tripled to 6,981. That’s despite President Rodrigo Duterte imposing a lockdown on the main island of Luzon until at least April 30.
    With more Filipinos becoming sick, the consequences of a medical brain drain are weighing on the health care industry. There is an estimated shortage of 23,000 nurses nationwide, according to the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines. The situation is so severe that most Filipinos die without even seeing a medical professional, a lawmaker said. Meanwhile, about 150,000 Filipino nurses currently work in the US alone.
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    Juan Mikko Cumbe, 28, from Nueva Ecija province north of Manila, said higher compensation and a lighter workload prompted him to move to Singapore.
    Now in his fifth year there, he considers himself lucky to work only eight-hour shifts while his former colleagues back home regularly work 12-hour days. Sometimes they have to endure 24 straight hours of duty when no one else is available to take the next shift, he said.
    “If there had been a better opportunity in my home country, I would have stayed put,” Cumbe said. “But there’s none, and at the moment I don’t see myself coming back.”
    https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3081345/philippines-sends-nurses-around-world-now-its-health-care