{"id":1646,"date":"2020-11-05T06:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2020-11-05T06:52:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:22:35","slug":"how-philippines-became-worlds-biggest-supplier-of-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/how-philippines-became-worlds-biggest-supplier-of-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Philippines became the world\u2019s biggest supplier of nurses?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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  1. The Philippines was ruled by Spain for 333 years (1565-1898) before America acquired it after defeating Spain in the Spanish-American war in 1898.<\/li>\n
  2. Under the Americans, the Filipinos absorbed the American culture through education and learned the English language.<\/li>\n
  3. At the same time, the war-torn country was hit by famines and epidemic outbreaks (cholera, malaria, etc.)<\/li>\n
  4. Soon, there was a shortage of American nurses in the Philippines and local Filipino women were recruited to become Volunteer Auxiliary Contract Nurses (VACN).<\/li>\n
  5. These VACNs and other qualified students were sent to the United States as pensionados<\/em> (government-funded scholars) to study nursing.<\/li>\n
  6. After returning these nurses became influential members in the Philippine society and helped set up several nursing schools from 1903 onwards.<\/li>\n
  7. Due to their success, many others went to be educated in nursing in the US (both government and self-funded) and a good number stayed in the US permanently.<\/li>\n
  8. During WWII, Filipino nurses, familiar with the American ways and comfortable with the English language, played a major role in helping wounded soldiers.<\/li>\n
  9. With a positive image and cost-effectiveness, Filipino nurses became a huge draw for other developed countries (Germany, Ireland, UK), which started hiring them instead of training their own nurses.<\/li>\n
  10. Because nursing offers good incomes in developed countries (Registered Nurses could earn more in a day than they\u2019d make in a month in the Philippines), many young aspirants pursue it as a career with the hope of moving abroad.<\/li>\n
  11. Also, Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are considered valuable assets in the Philippines as they send huge sums as remittances back home (in 2019, remittance worth US$ 33.5 billion was sent by OFWs).<\/li>\n
  12. So, the government backs them and in the last 10-15 years, persistent production of \u2018nurses for the foreign market\u2019 has been the country\u2019s strategy to develop an export industry for economic development.<\/li>\n
  13. This strategy is argued to have created a shortage of local nursing staff; of all employed Filipino Registered Nurses, roughly 85% work overseas, and a shortage of 23,000 nurses was reported during the country\u2019s struggle with COVID-19.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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