Why Does Philippines, Top Exporter Of Nurses Face A Shortage At Home? | Undercover Asia
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- The Philippines is the leading exporter of nurses to foreign countries. On average, 13,000 nurses leave the country every year. However, a month after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Philippines, a sudden deployment ban on nurses was imposed.
Nurses who have spent a fortune securing jobs overseas now find themselves strong-armed to stay and serve the country. But why do so many nurses want to leave the country in the first place? As we follow the nurses working in the frontlines of the pandemic, we find out how the Philippine healthcare system leaves its nurses overworked, underpaid and unprotected.
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From my personal experience, I have to say that Filipino nurses are among the most kind, compassionate & friendly nurses on the planet.
Also from my experience many of them married another man overseas while married to a Filipno man back in Philipines, Desperados.
i know therfor we have to maried with them , is olso a patriotic job that we have to do
@@mr.kaboom8729 in my experience, none that I can recall who is married in the Philippines and is with another relationship here in Qatar
@@mr.kaboom8729 Don’t American military men do that all over the world? Don’t they have at least a woman in every country? Losers! However, that is not what we are discussing here. We are celebrating/supporting hard working men and women. Keep your negative experience to yourself.
@@clairelamera1737 many.
I've worked in a govt hospital for 10 years. The salary and working conditions are horrible. Yet it took me 10 years to go here in UK. Just arrived last March. My 1 week salary here is my 1month salary in the Philippines. They really care about nurses here. Greatest decision I ever made. Now I can help my mother to have a medical checkup and help my siblings. Philippines is being run buy currupt officials. And thats the truth.
I’m glad to hear that you and your family are having a better life and that’s the dream of all human beings. 🙏🏻👍🏻
Because us Filipinos trust and follows politicians like GODS, politicians in Philippine aren’t public servant they are like kings and queens with power and influence. And we normal ppl thinks that is okay, since we keep voting them in positions or their family member
@@chancellorasher9417 not only Philippine but all other countries are the same and that’s why the world is dying🤔
Naku you are lucky co nurse someday i'll be there as well
Fukk our government!
Nurses are the core of healthcare, without nurses, there is no one to take care of the sick. Much love and respect for all Filipino nurses everywhere.
To be a paid nurse in the Philippines, you need a family members who work for the government or well known person to help you get in the job, otherwise nurse will end up volunteering for years until vacancy or just abandon the country and be a nurse overseas.
And that was my case.
It's not exclusive to nursing only, all professions here in the Philippines needs a 'backer' to be an employee of the govt.
Nepotism is definitely a must to even get good jobs to begin with.
Damned if you do
Damned if you don't
As a RN here in the US, I think we forget about the other nurses around the world who work just as hard as we do here in the US, but for far less wages.
Kudos to the nurses in the Philippines who have been battling this pandemic without the earning potential we've enjoyed here.
May God bless you 🙏🏾
Yes, the corruption is terrible in the Philippines.
If you don't have any contacts higher up, you have no chance in advance.
A terrible situation for the poor in particular who have to support an entire family.
@@yourmainful Have you seen the hospital conditions here in the Philippines? Or tried to raise a family on what they call salary? It is simple to see why so many go overseas to work. It is a terrible situation, but I do not blame the OFWs at all. If they government wants to keep workers here, they need to do a lot of improvements on workers' rights, benefits, and pay.
My sister isn't a nurse but also in allied health. In the Philippines, most of the hospitals turned her down after graduating. She ended up volunteering without pay. Finally, she decided to apply overseas and was offered a paid permanent job.
Good news!!
Eh di meow
Boy george hahhaha
yeh, i hear you have to volunteer first before you can get a job. My cousin did this for years until she was offered a permanent position.
Great for her. She found were to be appreciate it!
Just imagine how many Filipinos around the world are taking care of people. And yet, we still hear news about OFWs being discriminated, hated, mistreated, abused and even killed. Please, if you're abroad and you see a Filipino, just give them a genuine smile and they'll smile back at you, it means a lot to them 💕
Because racist people think you steal theirs jobs, especially if you are well off compare to ethics majority
Please stop this pandering. They can take care of themselves.
@@aquilifergroup Just a bit of empathy, is that too much to ask?
Oo may racist din dito sa uk lalo na mga teenager na bobo. Pag asian chinese na agad tanga
@@Georgetown327 ang dame palang bobong puti dyan.
I was once a Filipino nurse. I served my country for 2 years with all my heart but a love and sacrifice that goes unrequited could only go so far. I applied abroad and have chosen to be a “Mabahong isda” as Rizal would describe us, than serve a country who could not appreciate or pay us properly.
The Filipino people are judging us and calling us ungrateful. But at the end of the day, it is not the “Filipino people” who sent us to nursing school, who paid for our trainings, accommodation and transportation fees to work. So try to think, can they really blame us for choosing to leave?
They can call us all they want but this is our life and we CHOOSE to work and serve those who actually see our value and appreciate our hard work.
And as for the big salary we earn, guess where it goes? It is remitted to the people who have actually supported our education - our hard working parents ❤️
@@coco007nut9 I see your point. No offence taken. In my case though, I did not choose to go to nursing school. I didn’t even know that nurses earned so little. I only found out about that after I received my first salary. I wanted to take up Fine Arts but my parents forced me to take up nursing. I couldn’t say no because they financed my education.
Again, it boils down to choice. I could have chosen to stay in Pinas but seeing that my life wasn’t going anywhere and my salary wasn’t enough to help my family, I chose to leave.
If I had a 30K starting salary, wow. I would definitely stay. No one can imagine the heartache I felt when I bade my family goodbye. But again it was my choice to leave home to get a better chance at helping my family financially.
You are not mabahong isda, because that pertains to people na hindi marunong magmamahal sa sariling wika; if you care and love your wika, so therefore you can't be one. I can see that you care for the Philippines, and your family and a very caring person. Someone I know told me that taking care of someone is admirable, because not everyone can do it, it takes a special person to be naturally caring and have the patience, and capabilities to care for people in need
agree! It is not the people nor the government who paid for our tuition fees, who helped us become nurses. it is our own FAMILY! WE DO NOT OWE THE GOVERNMENT ANYTHING! We don't need to stay and die just for their own needs. A big F* U to them! Don't mind them!
i am a filipino nurse now retired from good old usa.im ready to come home and serve my country with the remaining life i will have . i will be voluntering , i will be amentor to the young nurses . i can do this now . thank you america you gave me a lot of experience and knowledge that i can share to my people back home . i learned a lot from american people .thank you
You have a good head on your shoulder. You never blamed the government and offer yourself to better the lives of fellow Filipino. I hope your plan come to fruition in the coming days or years.
May pera ka na kasi kaya pwedi ka ng bumalik.
Dont come back... Just stay there..
Maraming maraming salamat p0..
Lol you'll just be a baggage you don't know how toxic work in the Philippines if all your experience came from the usa, instead of training the young ones they gonna be training you, diff places diff protocols
11 years working with my Filpino Friends in Saudia , Yes They have bigger Salary but the Home sickness is not a joke big sacrities for their loves families real heros , Respect
Agree too...
This is so true, people telling as we went abroad to get rich but they don't know how it feels to be so lonely, to fight depression, Sometimes, it feels unfair why i am the one who need to be abroad and provide the family, sometimes
you envy your own family enjoying together.. Basically, many ofws don't have a life, they only wake up, work, home, and repeat.
@@firefly8383 exactly being overseas is so lonely, there is truely no where like home
@@firefly8383 indeed if we have good government I think there's no OFW
I am a Nurse. I left Philippines to worked in Saudi, Dubai and now here in the US. Main reason- salary of a nurse in the Philippines is one among the lowest unlike overseas. I worked in a tertiary hospital in Manila and what I earned was just enough for a single person without family to support.
It’s heartbreaking to see many nurses wanting so bad to leave and work outside of their own country and then when they get here, they’re treated as subordinates. Nurses are the backbone of the medical field. They do the hard work and doctors just oversee overall, yet their pay doesn’t match the work required.
Of course nurses are subordinates of Doctors. Always and all over the world. Did you think they are on the dame level as doctors? 🤷🏻♀️
@@dietlindvonhohenwald448 I'm a nurse in the US and I am not treated as a subordinate. For example, I make suggestions to the doctor and I have the right to reuse orders if I don't believe it's correct. I couldn't do all this when I was a nurse in Nigeria. I used to get yelled at for making suggestions. Nurses here can further their education and become Nurse practitioners where they can diagnose and prescribe medications.
Nurses here in The Philippines have been taken for granted and worst abused by employers by not compensating well and in the guise of volunteer jobs.
I totally agree with that.Thats why I left the country.
@@cchattie I don’t blame you ! Nursing is hard - and dangerous. They deserve better
Thank you for shining a light on the plight of dedicated, hard-working Filipino nurses.
*The Philippines capital is one of the most overpopulated places on earth.* There are few other areas where so many people live so closely together: On average there are 41,282 people per square kilometre, but in some slum regions there are as many as 88,000 people living per square kilometre.~
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Living place is becoming increasingly satuarated. This overcrowding is causing a range of problems such as pollution, deforestation, loss of wildlife, unemployment, malnutrition, clean drinking water shortages, and general poverty. ~
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*Every day, 95 children in the Philippines die from malnutrition. Twenty-seven out of 1,000 Filipino children do not get past their fifth birthday. A third of Filipino children are stunted, or too short for their age. Stunting after 2 years of age can be permanent, irreversible and even fatal. According to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).* ~
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Worse yet, a good 50% of the Philippines is very mountainous or volcanic, so the land area actually occupied and used by people (especially agriculture) is around half of the total land area of the Philippines. By 2050 it is expected that the Philippines’ population, if it continues to grow at present rates, will be around 150 million people. So an extra 50 million people will need to be crammed into already very crowded parts of the Philippines. And this on top of global warming, which will inundate more and more the land area of the Philippines that is flat and close to the ocean, which is most of the land that is needed for people to live in.~
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But the Philippines is not alone here-many Asian countries suffer from the same terrible overcrowding due to crazy population growth rates from the past.
Watch news documentary video about “Pagpag”. That is a common food eaten by poor people in Philippines. Pagpag is the Tagalog (Filipino) word for leftover food scavenged from garbage sites and dumps. The word “Pagpag” in the Tagalog language literally means "to shake off the dust or dirt", and refers to the act of shaking the dirt off of the edible portion of leftover food found in the trash. Pagpag can be either eaten immediately after it was found in the trash or cooked in variety of ways after collecting it.
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The act of eating pagpag arises from the practical challenges of hunger that results from extreme poverty in the Philippines
@@JD-jz5rr Scam, no one will fall for that.
@Hanse Rickenbacker what part of the documentary wasn't clear? There are no funds thus the nurses remain at a salary grade if they get paid at all.
they are not hard working it is obvious they are just after money, this is why they prefer working as a nurse abroad, and if they cant they prefer call centers
This actually applies not just for NURSES but to ALL HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN THE COUNTRY.
medtech, resp therapists, physical therapists, radtechs, nursing aides.
All Healthcare professionals are OVERWORKED AND YET UNDERPAID. Even discriminated. We deserve better.
True. if im not mistaken nurses and med techs get paid an average of 13000 at most places. Doctors on the other hand only get paid 23-25k a month after sacrificing a lot.
@@lightandnightEQUINOX 8
I worked for 2 years as a nurse in a Philippine hospital without pay. I was staying in nurses quarters, eating extra food from the pantry. Been working so hard from 8-16 hours everyday, even during Christmas time. I didn't mind about the mocking of our neighbors about sending me to university with expensive tuition fees. But what hitted a nerve is when I saw my family suffering financially and I cannot even help. So even if I am scared, I pursued to work in the middle east for a slightly higher salary than nothing
Yes taas ang tuition baba Ng Sahod😊
@@lynnlao9527 It's not that there aren't nurses. It's just the exploitative practices that have plagued the nursing profession in the Philippines coming home to roost.
THAT IS WHY WE NEED CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM and OPEN FDI. Why so many people are against opening our economy for foreigner investors kung lalabas rin lng naman ng ibang bansa. If may mga new health care institution from foreigner investors, edi marami sana tayong maaplyan sa Pilipinas kaso nakalaan sa ating constitution ang 60/40 ownership kaya maraming and restricted land ownership kaya maraming investors na ayaw sa pilipinas di lng sa mga hospital but halos lahat ng industries. Wala ksing kompetisyon yung mga malalaking kompanya dito sa pinas kaya kinocontrol nil yung sahod and employments. The only way to get out from their grip ay either mag ibang bansa or magallow ng mga foreign investors sa Pinas(which is mahirap kasi pangit ang Constitution natin). It is either we allow foreigners to come in sa Pilipinas by reforming our CONSTITUTION to offer employments and high salaries (esp if maraming kompetensya) or mag-iibang bansa nalang.
The door is wide open for Filipino nurses here in Australia. You're guaranteed a decent life and a path to citizenship.
What are the men of your country doing? Why do they not go to the middle east to work? Why always the women? Just curious.
I can honestly say that my Filipino friends here that are aides and nurses have shown the most compassion ngayon na sa nursing homes na sa United states lang. Pero I'm also part Filipino and also an aide in a nursing home. You may think I'm crazy but given the chance I would be honored to serve in the Philippines as an aide.
If you paid a nurse in the US or the UK 10 times their normal salary, they would be the best nurse you ever had.
Policemen and military personnel had their salaries raised, but medical professionals and teachers did not. Some of these professionals' families probably made many sacrifices just to have their family members get their college degrees. Just so unfair.
I try to understand, why do Filipinos complain so much about their country? for Filipinos everything is bad in the Philippines. The Philippines has a good educational system which is what every human being needs today, with a good education you can achieve everything you set out to do. I am not Filipino but I was educated in the Philippines, I am very proud to have been educated in the Philippines. I dont have nothing to complaint about the Philippines. Think about it.
The policeman salary was increase in order to avoid bribery. And its effective. Now, I don't hear police doing bribery unlike before I always hear police doing bribery.
Anyway the base salary of Policeman, Teacher and Nurse is almost the same.
@@carlosrojas01 Because we know that with good governance, our country can be better! Our country was not called the Sick Man of Asia for nothing!! Unfortunately, our leaders can easily be influenced by foreign nations wanted to take our natural resources!
This is true.. Army and police has the salaries increased but they can even stop the violence and defence the territory of the country.
Actually despite the miniscule pay of health workers they indeed have higher salary, where despite double the amount of salary for soldiers and police men.
Short answer: Human capital flight, also known as "Brain drain". The lack of opportunities and patriotism does this to my fellow Filipinos. You can NOT blame them thou, feeding our family is our priority.
And supporting the current corrupt uncaring leaders and or telling them to just pray to God will NOT fix anything
*The Philippines capital is one of the most overpopulated places on earth.* There are few other areas where so many people live so closely together: On average there are 41,282 people per square kilometre, but in some slum regions there are as many as 88,000 people living per square kilometre.~
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Living place is becoming increasingly satuarated. This overcrowding is causing a range of problems such as pollution, deforestation, loss of wildlife, unemployment, malnutrition, clean drinking water shortages, and general poverty. ~
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*Every day, 95 children in the Philippines die from malnutrition. Twenty-seven out of 1,000 Filipino children do not get past their fifth birthday. A third of Filipino children are stunted, or too short for their age. Stunting after 2 years of age can be permanent, irreversible and even fatal. According to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).* ~
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Worse yet, a good 50% of the Philippines is very mountainous or volcanic, so the land area actually occupied and used by people (especially agriculture) is around half of the total land area of the Philippines. By 2050 it is expected that the Philippines’ population, if it continues to grow at present rates, will be around 150 million people. So an extra 50 million people will need to be crammed into already very crowded parts of the Philippines. And this on top of global warming, which will inundate more and more the land area of the Philippines that is flat and close to the ocean, which is most of the land that is needed for people to live in.~
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But the Philippines is not alone here-many Asian countries suffer from the same terrible overcrowding due to crazy population growth rates from the past.
Watch news documentary video about “Pagpag”. That is a common food eaten by poor people in Philippines. Pagpag is the Tagalog (Filipino) word for leftover food scavenged from garbage sites and dumps. The word “Pagpag” in the Tagalog language literally means "to shake off the dust or dirt", and refers to the act of shaking the dirt off of the edible portion of leftover food found in the trash. Pagpag can be either eaten immediately after it was found in the trash or cooked in variety of ways after collecting it.
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The act of eating pagpag arises from the practical challenges of hunger that results from extreme poverty in the Philippines
@@JD-jz5rr no Philippines is not that bad, Im a foreigner who visited there. Stop making negative light on Philippines.
Ignore the bot JD, hes a troll, and a paid keyboard warrior of ccp. The pag pag Philippine video does not represent Philippines, yes its unfortunate, but as of now i heard the govt. has now accomodated those locations since the storms of 2020
I spent 10 years of my life working in corporate world, enjoying all the perks and high monetary compensations of my job. But this year (2021), I followed my heart to serve as a nurse in LGU Hospital and handle covid patients. No hazard pay and all but to serve the sick is our top most priority. To let our patients feel that they’re not alone in their journey. And we promise to stay at their death bed until they departed this earthly world peacefully and with dignity❤️❤️❤️
I love Filipino nurses. They are very compassionate, loving and hardworking nurses. If you see one in your country, I know they are spread throughput the world. Please, just give them a smile and acknowledgement. They are home sick.
Holding people hostage is not going to incentivize them to risk their lives for you. You can ban them from leaving the country, but can you force them to work for you in the industry you want them to?
Exactly. Instead of revising their pay scale for nurses that will be imposed for all healthcare facilities to follow and ensure that hospital/ clinic violators are fined, the government is twisting the arms of the nurses to force them to work for very little pay. Nurses in the Philippines are being treated by government officials and private hospital owners with disrespect. What's with the meager pay that these professionals take home? No offense meant but even a small mom and pop store owner makes more money than these nurses make in a month. If they want nurses to stay, give them the same incentive and financial worth that other countries are offering them. Banning them from leaving is not the answer.
And the State Government is the one holding you up. Compromising your future coz they are a failure to the society.😂
I don't agree with banning nurses to leave the country. That is the most selfish and stupid step by the government.
Increase their salary so nurses are motivated to stay in the country.
Teach other people to treat nurses with respect. After all nurses are humans and they do the MOST IMPORTANT job in the country and the world.
The sad truth is politicans are paid more than six digits even if they sit all day in their job doing nothing. Like Drilon who loves to sleep while at work.
@Anne Marie what are you questioning?
My daughter served for 5 years in a government hospital, 1 year as volunteer nurse (meaning no salary or allowance) and 4 years as a job order (contractual) nurse renewable every 6 months with very low salary. She has to go abroad to give a better life to her children, she's a single parent. So can we blame this nurses if they want to look for greener pastures?
Nursing is one of the most expensive courses in the Philippines. But the salary is very low. My sister and I have no choice but to leave the country for a better opportunity abroad and we're not disappointed. We meet what we want.
I love working with my flippino nurses. I'm Vietnamese and I know Asian nurses work extremely hard and have a different perspective than US nurses. They complain less and work harder.
You don't have to insult one nationality or ethnicity to complement another.
@@lillyblovesme its true tho. US nurses are entitled and spoiled brats.
@Anne Marie laziest question
@@lillyblovesme its facts. High turnover and constantly complaining. Complains are rarely over patient care and often use patient care as a mean to justify the complains.
@@coco007nut9 the fact that they barely speak English, from a poorer nation, and able to steal jobs from US nurses. What does that say? Point made. Fired? Lol they chose to be here and do jobs that other nurses cant handle.
In Philippines you pay in hospital for internship as a nurse.. Another issue is salary.. 10x better if you practice nursing in U K or western countries..
You pay in the us for you’re internships , pay for exams too
Nurses are so needed everywhere, not to mention all the areas that nurses can specialize in...nurse anesthetist
TANGA mo pala eh...15 yrs ago pa ang issue na yan...pero kumukuha pa rin ng nursing??? kc mga tangang mag cocollege palang eh gs2 na nila mag abroad na....san ka nakakita ng anak ng mayayaman na d man lng nakaranas maghugas ng kutsara tapos Nursing kukunin at mag hugas ng pwet ng ibang tao????
I try to understand, why do Filipinos complain so much about their country? for Filipinos everything is bad in the Philippines. The Philippines has a good educational system which is what every human being needs today, with a good education you can achieve everything you set out to do. I am not Filipino but I was educated in the Philippines, I am very proud to have been educated in the Philippines. I dont have nothing to complaint about the Philippines. Think about it.
@@carlosrojas01, the Philippines has a good educational system???? What a joke. Spent a few, short years studying in that country and you're confused as to why everyone doesn't have the same point of view as you. Stop acting all high and mighty when you know little to nothing about the lives of people who have actually spent their whole lives in this country.
There is no shortage. Most nurse graduates are on different field. For the past 30 years Healthcare is not prioritize in the country resulting to Nurses not given enough to stay in the field.
There IS a shortage because the graduates preferred other good paying jobs, most likely other fields, with lots of benefits that the medical/nursing career wouldn't and couldn't afford to give. And if the PH nurses already have the needed requirements to go abroad, why should they stay if the payment is 10-20 times higher than what it is being offer locally, it is a choice for a better and brighter future. Nurse shortage IS a global problem but only in the Philippines has the lowest salary rate undocumented (government released a statement that an average nurse earns 48,000PHP or 990+USD or 820+EU excluding tax, that in reality is just ¼ of it a month)
There, I fixed your statement. Bottom line, the ratio of nurse: patient is 1:∞, the lack of manpower therefore there's shortage. Or you have a different ‘shortage’
not to mention long hours of unpaid overtime and extra other outside field work
@@486davinci that is my point. If the government was able to attract nurses to work as a nurse then there will be no shortage in the hospitals. Ang daming nurse sa pinas na iba ang trabaho. Nurse parin naman sila kaya ko nasabing walang shortage di nga lang nagpapractice.
@@nursejam3294 hindi po tlga tayo magkakaintindihan dahil iba ang pov mo kung ano ang shortage..
Practicing man or hindi, kulang ang tao sa field so may *shortage* .. example kung 1:4 ang ideal sa 250 bed capacity dapat may 62-63 staff nurses per ospital, iba pa yung may paperworks.. e nakapag duty nga ko night shift 2 lang kame full house ung floor and when I say 2 lng kame, ako lang ang staff tapos charge nurse na yung kasama ko sa 1800-0600 shift.. parang wow d porket night shift konti lng naka duty buti kunh 1 lang ung magcode..
@@486davinci may shortage sa hospital yes meron talaga. But if you lure all the nurses from other field who works in the call center, online seller, real estate agents, bank tellers ung iba grab drivers na with the right wages wala sana shortage. We were ban from working abroad remeber? but with the statistics gathered by other nurses at sinampal sa gobyerno kng ilan ang registered nurse sa bansa na hnd ngpapractice dhl sa kawalan benepisyo atleast na ease ang deployment ban.
Millions of Filipinos struggle just to have enough to eat since the lock down. I am doing what I can as a American with loved ones in Philippines. Please consider helping people in the Philippines.
You undervalued us for many years and just calling us like your alalay, and now you know how important we are!!!!!
You look beautiful today
I am a nurse and i worked in a private hospital. True, salary is low but what i hate the most is the working schedule. It’s really exhausting, totoo ang burnt out, kahit ayaw mo mag absent eh d na kaya sa katawan mo. Halos everyday overtime and u r not compensated well. Pero tiis2x lang. I applied to work abroad for a better future and career opportunities. Praying for our healthcare delivery system will survive in this pandemic. Laban lang tau mga co-Nars!
Kaya pala sinabihan ako ng auntie ko na sana hindi nlang daw ako mag nurse(btw nurse po siya) pero yung nanay ko at lola gusto ako mag nurse para makapag-abroad
Nurse here.. Its not the salary. Yun nasa list priority ka ng government. So napilitan ako nag aral ng culinary. And now I'm a chef.
Nasan na ung binabayaran sa pna
kudos to you mam for staying strong and helping our country during these time of need. unlike those individuals featured here who rather remain unemployed than help their coutnry and their fellow health workers when we needed it the most.
Man, my heart goes to the Filipino people.
They're amazing, warm, dependable people that so many other populations have both taken for granted and abused.
As an exported nurse abroad, this documentary hits hard. Nursing is really a huge investment with all the college tuition, exams and all. Ending up a volunteer as an entry level in a hospital so you can get the experience you need and to equip yourself before going to other country who will pay like you said 10x or more. This video showed the reasons why I left. I will choose to stay if I could at least repay my family for their sacrifices and the money they spent on my education, just by seeing that I could feed myself, pay my own bills and have a little savings for my future family. But that’s too much to ask if you’ll work as a nurse in the Philippines especially in a private hospital.
I admire and respect all the nurses and other healthcare professionals who stayed and still chose to serve our country in this difficult time. Please stay safe! I’m still hoping that the government will see the health care workers’ worth even after the pandemic.
So sad to hear this, I also took nursing in college and I am now a call center agent. I hope in the future, Philippines will be able to provide better benefits to all health care workers.
60 plus patients, sa dalawang nurses, 12 to 16hrs.. 12k monthly?? Pag may nag arrest mamimili nalang sinung bubuhayin.. Or mas maganda wag nalang wala rin naman ambag lalaitin ka pa...
#Police nalang mag revive
I SECOND THAT!!!!!
tama!
TRUEEEEE
Paki send sa PNP mga na cardiac arrest
Tama. Mas malaki pa sahod ng militar at kapulisan!
i am a ph nurse, all informations are correct.
thank you.
edit: now working in germany.
Nice one
same here. now in Germany, deployed last month.
@@user-gy1hj6hi3j in german information also has a plural form. I think it's an understandable mistake.
Did germany allowed hepa b + to work?😩😩😩 I'm currently studying nursing but I'm so dissapointed and about to lose hope in my future.
@@jadetucong7062 according to what I found on google, theorectically yes, but only if in your job description there is no duties which may raise the possiblity of infecting your patients. I don't know how they really do the recruiting in the real world.
Unfortunately, all these heroes only got recognition from the netizens and nothing else. May God bless all the nurses and frontliners.
As a doctor in Nigeria, am paid less than their grade 11, and cost of living here is more expensive.
I’m so sorry to hear this. I hope things improve there
even in indonesia.. nurse get less than their 11 grades. even our gdp per capita is much higher than that of in the PH
@@grezenjak1 Well we need to factor in competition. Since the market demand for Filipino nurses abroad is very high, then the PH government would need to make the compensation higher in order to compete. Its the law of supply and demand.
Its only means Pilipino nurse are more likely seeking High salary because there are comparing the salary to other country..
Salary grade 11 only applies to those who are working in the government facilities. I used to work in a private hospital in the Philippines and my salary is half of what the salary grade 11 is receiving. I'm still consider a bit lucky on that because for other private hospitals(rural areas) they pay their health care workers alot lesser. That is the devastating reality.
I'm crying watching this. I'm glad that I was able to go overseas after serving the Philippines for almost 10 years as a nurse but it breaks my heart to see my fellow frontliners not being able to get the benefits and salary they deserved. Also the reason why I left the country.
Good for you naka 10yrs ka sa pinas. Ako 1 yr lang. di ko kaya ang workload at sahod. lahat ng sahod ko napunta lang sa pamasahe. Kaya nag decide agad ako mag abroad.
@@skylargomez4767 financial problem din po kasi. Needed ng pera bago makapag abroad at mahirap talaga maka ipon sa pinas kaya inabot ng almost 10 years bago ako nakalipad papuntang UAE.
I try to understand, why do Filipinos complain so much about their country? for Filipinos everything is bad in the Philippines. The Philippines has a good educational system which is what every human being needs today, with a good education you can achieve everything you set out to do. I am not Filipino but I was educated in the Philippines, I am very proud to have been educated in the Philippines. I dont have nothing to complaint about the Philippines. Think about it.
Underappreciated ang nurses dito. Low pay. Ngayon may covid late ang hazard pay tapos parang wala pang pake. Ang binibigay lang shoutout at palakpak. Sana tumaas sweldo ng nurses dito. Sobrang risky ng work ngayon at tini-take advantage pa.
@@yourmainful easier said than done. Too much corruption
And to add insult to the injury,the Philippine Government has no health care insurance program that will cover you at least 80% of the hospital expenses.
I am a pinoy nurse here in Los Angeles. I had my BSN in the Philippines. Comparing myself to my local counterparts in the Philippines, the only difference is FREEDOM! It is now April 23, 2021 the cases here in LA flatten as covid vaccines roll out. I am willing to work as a volunteer in hospitals in the NCR, Philippines to help patients without pay. So let me know who wants me on the floor.
Amazing. I salute you 👏
👏👏👏 the best ka :)
so why put your offer in the comment section?
You're one of the few Ma'am... I salute you.😊💖💖💖
You're one of the few Ma'am... I salute you.😊💖💖💖
Im one of the Registered Nurses here in the Phils who opted to change my career , our Govt sucks. They dont give priority to Nurses.
for a "professional", your wisdom and intelligence is still lacking. stop saying things like that. our country is just poor. that's it. saying things like "priority", what about other jobs? everyone is also asking for the same thing. in the end, the "priority" you really want is MONEY.
You are a disgraced to your country....if a am a registered nurse I would rather helped my country in times of PANDEMIC....but you, you rather saved the FOREIGN LAND for the sake of MONEY....an IDIOT EXCUSE.
@@claireglory youre not a Nurse and have not experienced the same thing that we are fighting for. Try to have a Nurse degree first and work as a Nurse so you will know. I will not be a Private Nurse of doctors and even Ambassador, if Im not good enough. And Green house I have every right to say that our GOVT REALLY SUCKS
@@claireglory were not poor, Phillipines has so much. But since we are controlled by the Government.. that is why.. you need to research. OMG! I pity you for having such a little brain
Your duty is to serve the people.
Not the money.
There is no shortage of nurses here in the Philippines, they are not in the hospitals but they are working as call center agents, police, soldiers, housewife and most of them are unemployed and underemployed. Private hospitals here in the Philippines are so strict, you should have at least 3 years experience in the hospital with 200 bed capacity, you don't have failing marks, you belong to the top 20 percent of the graduating class and also 80 and above board rating. Every year, more or less 3k nursing grads passed the board exam. We lack hospitals here in the Philippines to accommodate all of our nurses.
This not only applies to the Philippines but it's a worldwide problem. The exception is that President and his government have taken an extreme course of action that most countries will never take. If this was the US, the President would be under impeachment for taking actions against the constitution. However, there are others who support the President and this government and they are at the heart of the Philippine problem. The truth is that in the 1960s, the Philippines had the second-biggest economy Asia, but now "languishes" behinds Indonesia, mainly due to corruption and cronyism (Forbes, 2017) which make proper economic growth impossible. It also sees the majority of the Philippine people uneducated and languishing in poverty. Sure, progress has come but it should be nothing to someone like President Duterte who says his iron-fisted approach is all that it takes to turn the country.
@@austen98Wait is duterte and his administration preaching for the amendment of the 1987 constitution? I think that should be the first thing we must do if we want to be an Asian Tiger again... We need foreign investors here so that they can be outcompeted by businesses that monopolizes the market, which then breeds corruption from politicians and businessman alike... We need to end this parasite that is the constitution that renders our country to become a protectionist state... But amending a constitution requires a lot of approval in the members of Congress who many are corrupt in my own opinion. An amendment is a very serious action that only happens if the country is visibly in turmoil or at war...
@@austen98 i don't understand this logic. you cited years, 1960s. the video said that since the 1990s, the nursing law was not implemented. but you blame duterte for it? the same duterte that pushed for constitution amendments early on in his term that would have opened our economy to foreign investments, but failed because of the short-sighted opposition who scream dictatorship every time the constitution is debated on?
@@yesidothecooking Sorry, I didn't get a chance to clear this up earlier. When I mentioned the constitution, I meant the US constitution, not the Philippines's. You are also exactly right about how the Philippines has come to the point it has right now. However, if you read the article that I cited (rather poorly I might add), you will understand where I was coming from and hence the statement I was making about Duterte. The Philippine people deserve better in every way and not just in this case.
Level of IQ does not always equates to the Level of EQ. I understand the need for excellence but this rakes out opportunity for 80% of the remaining part of the class for a livable life. This is something that the government can actually take consideration more.
PS. Not a Dilawan.
My preceptor told me she left because the pay was so low. She was trying to support her family of 3.
Happy she left, or else I would have never met her. Best preceptor ever
I worked here in abroad as a healthcare for 25yrs! I experienced good and bad with a different nationality! But i worked hard as a pilipino i even got a lot of compliments and award from my administrator! Stayed in one company, now i am retired and back n fort to my loving country philippines!!
That’s normal in HC.
Its not only nurses that are underpaid in the Philippines, almost all professions are.
The Philippine Nurses Association never did anything, never really fought for the Filipino nurses. It makes sense by the way that the main culprit is the decentralization of healthcare in 1991, the corruption in the LGU's are real, shoutout to Pasig City tho they're good!
this is true.. LGU is the main culprit.
PNA Membership 500 Peso, last 2007 new nurse who passed the exam was almost 29,000, people.. Do the math and let say not all applied for membership still big amount of money.. and they will give a folder/paper type of ID after membership and not laminated. Corruption hahaha easy money for the PNA/ Philippine Nurse Assiociation.. nurse are cash cow on that year you have to pay the hospital in order to have experience.. now they are asking for help..
@@mirocioco278 exactly
Yan plataporma ni vico nung tumakbo sya nakakatuwa na tinupad talaga nya pinangako niya
LGU is local government unit ?
Dear Nurses from the Philippines, u deserve your rightful respect and pay. If possible, please leave for better job pay. I'm sure Singapore or many other countries will welcome you for your service. I have met this very kind nurse from the Philippines who is happily married to a local guy, has 2 beautiful kids, pretty good pay, got her parents over to Singapore as well. I'm not trying to paint a wonderful life for the nurses but just sharing the possible outcome.
The first point to this is that they're not allowed to leave the country.
It's not good to try to continue encouraging citizens to leave their country. It's better to try and stay and fix the situation at home. Plus this is just one side of the story. Singapore is nice and good to visit but it has a high cost of living plus it's a small city state where you will probably end up living in an overpriced box at least in the PHils you can buy your share of a small lot and live outside the city. It's better if PHils. try to keep the cost of living from skyrocketing like in other countries and people have decent quality of life even if they're not rich.
@@noeminoemi1350 If good pay and good working conditions are 'encouraging citizens to leave', then encourage away! It's all well and good to tell people to try to fix things at home....but the video makes it clear that they've been trying to for years, with no success. I'd like to see you turn down a 10x pay increase with better hours and better conditions, especially after you've paid as much money as these nurses have paid and borrowed to get their certifications.
Are you really supporting the idea of banning citizens from travelling out of the country? Holding them hostage in the vain hope that they'll get desperate enough to take your job or starve? Do you want the person responsible for your care to be literally forced into that? Look at that person caring for you and your loved one and understand that they're being held hostage to serve you.
I feel sorry for them! I'm so thankful for our late Father who have worked so hard to fund our nursing degrees and brought us in USA after we graduated.
You look beautiful today
Nung nag take ako ng Nursing, iniisip ko din talaga mag abroad. Mahal po ang mag aral sa Pilipinas kaya di rin ako naka graduate. Kaya saludo ako sa lahat ng nurses sa Pilipinas kasi malaki ang hirap nila para lang maging isang Nurse. Bigyan natin sila ng importansya, sana mapanuod ito ng mga nasa gobyerno para malaman nila anu ba ang kalagayan ng mga health workers sa Pilipinas. ❤️
This is scary, because the medical community everywhere are showing shortages and painful stress and burnt outs.
Hello Paula
More than a decade ago, I worked as a nurse in PH. Sadly, in MY experience, nurses in the Philippines were/are treated like professional maids, by patients, doctors and society in general. The salary is very meager as well.
I now work as an RN in Canada. The society has more respect for nurses and doctors actually respect our opinion. The pay is incomparable, we get paid by the hour. What I made in a month in the Philippines I could make in 2 days. About 2/3 of my income covers my family's living expenses here, considering expenses are also in dollars.
Im glad you are having a better life now in Canada. I support Filipino medical professionals leaving the country if only to make a point to the government how they are failing Filipino workers because they allow private and public hospitals to corrupt you.
I try to understand, why do Filipinos complain so much about their country? for Filipinos everything is bad in the Philippines. The Philippines has a good educational system which is what every human being needs today, with a good education you can achieve everything you set out to do. I am not Filipino but I was educated in the Philippines, I am very proud to have been educated in the Philippines. I dont have nothing to complaint about the Philippines. Think about it.
@@carlosrojas01 have you worked in the Philippines? Not everything is bad in this country but just like any 3rd world, even 1st world countries, its people have its own share of complaints. I honestly think its not fair and humane for hospitals to make newbie medical professionals work for free. In the end, these professionals grab it and then have other countries benefit.from them. One can only do so much charity work because at the end of the day, it doesnt pay bills.
@@carlosrojas01 no, you're everywhere and f*ck you.
You fail to mention the cost of living in western countries though! Yeah you make much more than in a 3rd world country but also all living expenses are much much higher.
CNA's favorite part and scene is the slum in Manila, Manila is a region that consists of 16 Major Cities, most of the cities are wealthy. And, not all Filipino nurses are poor most of them came from wealthy families.
Dear all health care worker ,
If u are reading this , we want to thank u from all the hard work u have done to to us .... your are all everyday saving people while we stay at home and be safe....
Dear everybody , if you are reading this... plz remember to wear your mask , wash your hands and practice social distancing .... this is the only way that this virus will end ... than people can start seeing their love ones that can't come back .... plz I beg your .... do your part for the nations ... I really want to see my father , but he can't as he is at overseas working ....
I think the Philippines' budget is only focused on the military, police or infrastructure projects. It would take a century for our country to give importance on us. So sad. 😷
They are focused on how to fatten their own wallets (government officials)
At bulsa ng politicians
Get ride of US and your problems solved.
@@belgurung3538 yes US Imperialism must go
23:54 decentralization of budget... That's the problem. Imagine if the local governments are corrupt, the result is lack of facilities and underpaid healthworkers. I hope the lawmakers will do something about it.
If the Philippine government wants them to stay and work in the Philippines, they should give them higher wages. They are the heroes of this pandemic.
Oh that poor nurse struggling to breathe and then dying 5 days later. I just wanted to help her ... calm her.... 😢
Iba talaga pag may leadership, commonsense at hindi corrupt ang pulitiko! Salute to Mayor Sotto ng Pasig
Families send their children to nursing school with the intention to send them overseas to work. Those who stay to become nurses at home have young kids and can't bear to leave or they worked overseas already, saved and came back home
I know someone who opted to stay for her "boyfriend" and making excuses that she wont leave the country because she can't leave her "mother". 😂
My daughter is BSN graduate,but she is working in Riyadh,it is because of salary that's why she chose to work outside our country!
No one goes to Nursing school because they want to work in Philippines.
@@eduardochavacano have you seen the situation if our health care system?Before those student finished BSN course they do community service and they can see and experience how to be a nurse in public hospitals in our country!You can't blame those people,nursing course is not cheap anyways it is like bussiness,they want to see the profit of their investment not only the money but also the time and effort and they invest to become a nurse,if they stay in the Philippines,it is far from reality to get that profit!
*The Philippines capital is one of the most overpopulated places on earth.* There are few other areas where so many people live so closely together: On average there are 41,282 people per square kilometre, but in some slum regions there are as many as 88,000 people living per square kilometre.~
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Living place is becoming increasingly satuarated. This overcrowding is causing a range of problems such as pollution, deforestation, loss of wildlife, unemployment, malnutrition, clean drinking water shortages, and general poverty. ~
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*Every day, 95 children in the Philippines die from malnutrition. Twenty-seven out of 1,000 Filipino children do not get past their fifth birthday. A third of Filipino children are stunted, or too short for their age. Stunting after 2 years of age can be permanent, irreversible and even fatal. According to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).* ~
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Worse yet, a good 50% of the Philippines is very mountainous or volcanic, so the land area actually occupied and used by people (especially agriculture) is around half of the total land area of the Philippines. By 2050 it is expected that the Philippines’ population, if it continues to grow at present rates, will be around 150 million people. So an extra 50 million people will need to be crammed into already very crowded parts of the Philippines. And this on top of global warming, which will inundate more and more the land area of the Philippines that is flat and close to the ocean, which is most of the land that is needed for people to live in.~
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But the Philippines is not alone here-many Asian countries suffer from the same terrible overcrowding due to crazy population growth rates from the past.
Watch news documentary video about “Pagpag”. That is a common food eaten by poor people in Philippines. Pagpag is the Tagalog (Filipino) word for leftover food scavenged from garbage sites and dumps. The word “Pagpag” in the Tagalog language literally means "to shake off the dust or dirt", and refers to the act of shaking the dirt off of the edible portion of leftover food found in the trash. Pagpag can be either eaten immediately after it was found in the trash or cooked in variety of ways after collecting it.
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The act of eating pagpag arises from the practical challenges of hunger that results from extreme poverty in the Philippines
@@JD-jz5rr there's so many docu show that I've already watched about pagpag,that is one of the many reason why I always say that if we want to improve our life,our country and everything that can affect our life,it's a must to start it inside our home!
While I admire how proficient Filipino nurses are overseas, I'd like to commend those who chose to stay home and serve regardless of being shortchanged on benefits. I'd like to think that Filipinos nurses are the most proficient and caring in the world. MABUHAY po kayo!
I've taken up Nursing course in college here in the Philippines but shifted to another course. I can say Nursing is hard. You need to sacrifice your MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL WELL BEING. Saludo sa lahat ng mga nurses! 🙏🏼 YOU ARE OUR MODERN DAY HEROES!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you for putting a spotlight to the true heroes of this pandemic: the healthcare workers, particularly our nurses. It is truly heart-breaking to know and to witness their hardships. I don’t blame them for choosing to leave the country. It is the typical Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) story of finding “greener” pasteur outside the country. Salaries here are just too low, not just for nurses but also in other medical fields, and in other sectors too. Incessant corruption and bureaucracy in the government doesn’t help either.
I mean too low for almost all the fields of work. Just because living expenses are dirt cheap.. So these greedy companies pay crumbs!
Yet most Filipinos hail Duterte as if he's a good president and deem his government as better than the previous. lol A lot of Filipinos still continuing to believe and support Duterte shows how rotten the society of the Philippines is and those with thinking minds and filled with rationality would leave if given the chance or have left the country.
Im so glad this is almost an hour-lomg documentary. Speak up nurses. You deserve better!
everyone deserves better
Thank you to all Filipino nurses here and abroad.
I make good money in the U.S. and I still want to quit nursing. It’s a soul crushing job.
Geezz me too ✋ 😢 😪 from LA here
Bachelor of Science in Nursing graduate here. 🙋🏻♀️ Yup, we have a lot of nurses here in the Philippines yet salary is waaaay too low for the profession. 😢 Hence why I did not take the board exam and I worked as a cabin crew in Doha, Qatar instead.
what the hell are your politicians and administrators doing? and how did they end up in their positions?
@@sergiustang Exactly. There won't be a lot of OFWs in the first place if only the government could provide what the Filipinos want even without the pandemic. Now, what we are experiencing during this time of the pandemic is an ENDLESS CYCLE of lockdown. No concrete plan thus resulting in stress, economic downfall, and death. We Filipinos don't mind working for the motherland as long as we get the opportunity that the foreign countries can give. but no, instead we are treated like trash, low salary, discrimination, and there is also a politician who belittled the profession of nursing.
@@sergiustang for question 1 - many politicians are either heads of the crime syndicates or are paid by crime syndicates so nothing is done except letting crime rule. the 6 years is only a clean up of the facade. question 2 - the poor and manipulated people voted for these corrupt politicians that only aim to serve their crime bosses and steal tax payer money. another comment here mentioned brain drain - many filipinos since the 70's or earlier have left due to persecution of the government so the middle class is either too few or none at all, either to this diaspora or the economy is such that it is pushing the middle class below the poverty line. too many poor people are manipulated by traditional politicians who 'buy' votes and the cycle continues. this is universal among third world countries. This is not unique to the Philippines. What IS unique to the Philippines is the fact that our nurses export since after WW2 thanks to the Americans. it just never stopped. the pandemic only highlighted this.
@@hathor2 'In a democracy, the people end up with the government and leaders they deserve'
You guys have only yourselves to blame for your corrupt leaders. Stop blaming others but yourselves and maybe pinoys will stop cleaning my toilets or wiping my grandma's a** in a few generations.
@@bsolutions525 almost all candidates are corrupt....that the best we can only do is choose the least evil.
Growing up in the Philippines.I was a Dylexic my teachers often called me stupid and often insulted me because I was the "Bobo" of the class.I remember my math teacher would insult me in front of the class calling me names and calling me stupid just because I didnt understand what she was talking about.I loose my self esteem.I would come home crying and neved told my parents about it.One of my chemistry teacher laughed at me and said I couldn't be a nurse because of my grades are low in High School.I was a nursing student 2004 in the Philippines and I quit.I only finish 2 years.Mostly I was only pressured by my parents also that time nursing was a popular professions,student often have thesame goal to work abroad or in the U.S.Being a nurse in not for everyone.Fortunately I came in the U.S. and I have a good job.I even got promoted,even though I did not end up being a nurse or never reached college I still have a good job and I can be able to feed my family.Im so glad I did not became a nurse.
...more power to you for not giving up
I have dyslexia but nothing is impossible mostly people who succeed are the ones like us we have been mis treated
Teary eyes while watching this. Personally as a Nurse in the Philippines and a Covid nurse, I can relate to this experience. That is why the government can not blame us why we prefer to work abroad. Filipino nurses are exploited, undervalued, neglected in their own country. No funds, no care for nurses that is the sad reality in this country.
Dto sa US malaki nga sahod ng mga nurses dto, Kaso Hindi nila iniisip ang cost of living dto Sobrang mahal, we need to work extra hours para Lang makaipon.
punta ka ng UK ku g namamahalan ka d2😅
I lost my father to Covid. The brave nurses who took care of him had to wash and submerge their PPE outfits daily with disinfectant after each shift. And they had to pay for their regular Covid tests out of their own pockets. Tsk!
doh at philhealth yn ang contribution nila sa mga healthcare workers at kay duterte salamat for keeping duque at bay nasusukat talaga kung gaano kalakas mag tiis ang madaming healthcare workers pero sana wag na nyang paabutin na dumami pa ang mamatay at umalis sa pinas
Im so sorry for your loss po.. 😞
I started my career as a Nurse in Government Hospital way back 2007 in the Philippines. After 7 years I left not only because of low salary but also we have seniority and we are not appreciated as a whole..from the relatives of the patients to the bosses above at pataasan ng ihi..working as a Nurse here sa ibang bansa sobrang appreciated kami dito and respected. Salary and benefits well compensated. walang seniority from top bosses, doctors lahat pantay pantay at nakakausap ng normal. we have additional and more benefits pag nag work sa COVID Station and well protected. Kaya gustuhin ko man manatili sa Pinas well thanks but no thanks hindi naman po kami Soldiers na pinag aral ng Gobyerno kasi sariling pera po namin ang ginamit namin for our Degree.
To my fellow Filipino Nurses salute sa inyo jan and remember you have a choice and staying sa Pinas is a choice not a decision..mas malaki and madami ang opportunities dito sa ibang bansa.
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Thank you to all your sacrifice. God bless you and your families for your willingness and dedication to serve. Mabuhay po ang lahat ng nurses ng Pilipinas!
I share my tears and sentiments to all nurses in this pandemic times...sana malampasan ninyo itong krisis na ito. My greatest salute and respect!!!
Thank you for saying that. My Bestfriend and I are RNs here in Los Angeles, it was stressful and draining .... but as vaccinations in the US are about 60% the Nurses and the Healthcare workers are able to lessen the fears of covid. We are the paid higher here but Nursing jobs are very stressful
Simple answer: The pay is poor, working conditions and work hours are hard and the need to support a family.
hindi..antatanga lang tlga...college palang kc gs2 na mag abroad kaya ng nursing...yan minalas hahaha
“Napakaraming nurses dito sa amin, pero bakit tila wala nang natira? Nag a abroad sila. “ as a 4-yr Overseas Filipino Worker, I can see why.
Gloc 9 song yes
@@nekoplaysescanor7930 it’s fitting for this docu
Hello gorgeous
Sus! Wake up guys. Mostly nurses dito underpaid kya nag BBPo nlng. nuff said.
Walang kwenta kasi sa pilipinas 25 years ako nag abroad at pag balik ko sa pinas parang 1996 pa rin ang utak ng tao walang pagbabago kahit saan ka pumunta parepreho lang if you were born and grew up in the Philippines you will learn nothing.but katangahan.
Thank you to all the nurses around the globe. You have all our respect for your sacrifices. I hope all these nurses work under safety and regain their personal and daily lives as the pandemic fades away.
This is very sad but the reality. People also have to make a living and think of their future. The nurse who gave me my first COVID dose was a Filipina nurse. She worked for the county hospital. There are many nurses in the medical office and hospital that I go to who are also Pinays. I am proud of them and grateful for everything that they do.
Madaming nurses ang pinili ang mag abroad pero marami pa ding nurses ang natira sa Pilipinas. Mas pinili na lang nila na mag iba ng propesyon since hindi nila mabubuhay ang pamilya nila sa kakarampot na suweldo ng mga Nurses sa pilipinas. Goodluck!
Tama po Yung kapatid ko nga rin po ilang taon nagvolunteer na wala naman tlaga sahod. Napakahirap maghanap ng work noon sa hospital dahil oversupply na graduates noon ng nurses. Kaya Yung iba ngwork sa ibang field yun iba ng abroad na. Ngayon di namn Nila mabigyan ng tamang pasahod Yung natirang nurses sa Pinas.
Basically our government doesn’t support our professional workers, they have rather them working internationally. Now it’s back firing.
nagtaas na po ng salary grade and may additional allowance na po. kaso, kilala naman natin ang healthcare mafia godmother, ang pinuno ng remdesivir cartel, the duke of bambang and san lazaro francisco duque iii.
BOBO mo pala eh..15 yrs ago pa alam na mababa ang sahod ng nursing d2 sa pinas at mataas ang workload...pero bakit andami pa ding kumukuha ng nursing? kc ang mga tanga ay mag aapply palang ng nursing sa college ay nasa isip na ang pag aabroad...mga ka batch kung nursing dati anak ng mga politicians at mayayamang angkan na d man lng nakaranas maghugas ng kutsara tapos nursing ang kinuha??? at maghuhugas ng pwet ng ibang tao pa??? syempre abroad eh...hahahahhha
@@laoaisymu8771 Bobo mo pala eh, alam mo nga na ngnurse sila dahil gusto nila mag.abroad at hindi magsuffer sa small salary jan sa Pinas, tapos ng nglabas sila ng Memo na bawal umalis ang mga nurses at pipilitin nila magtrabaho jan.. Saan ang democracy?
Listening to this heart aching documentation about us filipino nurses while washing my multiple used Chlorine soaked PPEs is sad 😓pls Pray for us
Sad to know. God Bless
May God be with you
Godhearsourcry
I was a teacher back home. I remember my salary that the was 5k pesos /40 dollars a month. I decided to leave the country and work as a caregiver here in Canada. Big difference... and I'm glad I decided to leave the country.
My aunt is a nurse. When she graduated she directly went to the UK, due to the low salary here in the Philippines. Now she moved to Texas and lives with a higher-paying job.
The government should increase the income for nurses so they can maintain them inside the country.
The Documentary is accurate , I used to work in a private hospital Sa probinsya I got paid only 5000 pesos that was like 18 or 20 yrs ago, pamashe at pagkain kulang , buti libre ako Sa house and other bills kasi I’m living with my mom , did it for 2 yrs and fortunately I was able to go abroad with the grace of God.
Same here maam.. Ako nga 4k monthly.. Sinasabihan pa ako sa bahay kahit isang kilong kamatis di man lang maka bili 😢😢 kulang pa sa pamasahe at kain araw araw... Ngayon di na ako na tatrabaho sa hospital.. Di ata maka buhay ng pamilya..
You look beautiful today 💗
Because the salary in Phil is so low for nurses
30k in public hospital for nurses. That is still low?
@@eduardochavacano Hospitals arent accepting more despite needing more work force, because of unable to pay. Peps are finding ways to meet ends meet, nurses arent to blame her. Govt. Hospitals are making it harder for people like us to work
@@eduardochavacano sa public lang po yan. Tapos di pa yan linis. Mai mga bawas pa yan. Sa private hospitals sobranh swerte mo na kung sahod mo 13k. Kasi usually 9-10k lang. at lahat nun walang OT pay. Usually nakakapag OT ang mga nurses lalo na shortage ng staffs at daming doctors order. At walang bayad yun.
Sa government pwide tlga pataasan Ang sahod but sa mga private hospital di po basta2 na mapataas Ang salary need ng more time to increase kasi Ang magiging kawawa rin minsan baka pataasan nila yong presyo sa Pag gagamot.. Kaya need tlga bantayan to at masunod Ang minimum wage ng mga nurse but don't expect na makaka earn ka nga malaki tulad sa ibang bansa. ..
It's been 2 years since I've moved to the UK and yet this topic still brings me to tears. The dedication of Filipino nurses is truly above and beyond. Our cry for the right pay and safer work environment in the Ph continue to fall on deaf ears. I still have few friends back home who earn less than £200 a month and given inadequate PPE yet they still continue to serve the country. I hope the government realises that the HCW's are as equally, if not more than worth the increase in salary like those men in uniform (police, army, etc). Mabuhay kayo mga kabaro!
Teachers are also experiencing the same. This should stop. Nurses and teachers deserve more
This makes my heart ache. I’m an OFW nurse and I already know what this video is gonna say without even watching it. 😔
Thank you for Showcasing the Resilience and dedication of my Countrymen. Filipino nurses is one of our biggest pride, but it is very unfortunate how they are undervalued and unappreciated. The Government system is broken in the Philippines for decades. And as unfortunate as it sounds it is even worse to think that it may never get better.
This is also why there is an estimated 2.3 million Filipinos that work abroad. They chose to be away from their Families. They lose the chance to see their children grow up. They put their Families first because they know that no one else but themselves can provide a better life.
I'm crying to the hardwork of nurses,,,God bless them all...
I remember wearing raincoats when we ran out of hazmat last summer... the bright side i lost weight. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
i can fully relate, i serve and was a nurse for 8 yrs in the Phils earning merely $100-$150 month. Fast forward, now for 6yrs working here in San Francisco California as an ICU/CCU RN, salary is incomparable, benefits are top notch and profession is highly respected here. Going abroad was the best God guided decision i have ever made in my life. Kudos to my fellow nurses, keep the fire and go abroad, the grass is greener on the other side. The land of milk and honey do exist.
Speak the truth. Go where you can support your family. The American dream is real. Mabuhay kaibigan ko
Salary of healthcare professionals is low. Filipinos take up nursing and other medical professions with going abroad in mind, not to stay in the country. While the government (and private sector), instead of taking steps to improve working conditions and salary so professionals will stay, further encourages brain drain because Filipinos' abroad remittances are very good for the economy.
In other words, Philippines just exports people abroad because we have nothing else to offer. The government, the system and Filipinos themselves should be blamed for allowing this to happen.
Indeed. As what the government says "healthcare professionals are replaceable". It doesn't matter to them (the government) if the country suffers brain drain. I pity the local people, they cannot experience a topnotch services of these professionals because most of the workers do only work in the Philippines to get their job experience then leave when they get trained and became competent with their profession.
This is issue has been going on for a lot of years now, even without the pandemic. Why would we serve a government/people that treats us like trash? Just by looking at the comment section you can see what I'm talking about. It's a sad system that we have. As much as I want to serve my fellow countrymen, my priority is MY family.
Cant really blame them napaka low talaga nga sweldo sa pinas na hindi natin sila masisi kung bakit gusto nila mag abroad
When my grandmother worked as a nurse in the Philippines, she only made 5 pesos an hour 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. This was the late 1960's, when 1 Filipino peso was worth 50 cents. She immigrated to the US for nursing, and was blown away by how much better she was paid in New York. After getting settled in New York and finding a place for family, the rest of the family immigrated as well. A number of years later, they found themselves a better neighborhood, away from the Bronx, and lived peacefully in the US.
Wow! So happy to see Abba Personnel Services in this doc, the agency that brought me to the UK. ❤️ I’m also delighted that the healthcare worker ban has now been lifted!
I remember about 8 years ago when the Philippines had a surplus of nurses. In some hospitals, you can’t even step inside the building to submit your application. You are sent straight to the parking lot, where there’s a drop box for CVs. There was also the option of doing volunteer work, so you don’t get paid. 🤣 I love the Philippines and I am proud to be a Filipino nurse, I wish that our nurses are treated better.
Most of the Filipinos who studied or studying nursing have it in the back of their minds to go abroad...not because they want to work in Philippine hospitals. That's the fact.
I try to understand, why do Filipinos complain so much about their country? for Filipinos everything is bad in the Philippines. The Philippines has a good educational system which is what every human being needs today, with a good education you can achieve everything you set out to do. I am not Filipino but I was educated in the Philippines, I am very proud to have been educated in the Philippines. I dont have nothing to complaint about the Philippines. Think about it.
@@carlosrojas01 Because we know that with good governance, our country can be better! Our country was not called the Sick Man of Asia for nothing!! Unfortunately, our leaders can easily be influenced by foreign nations wanted to take our natural resources!
@@carlosrojas01 the Philippines CAN and SHOULD be doing better, but the blatant corruption, from the lowest to the highest level of the government just screws everyone over. Even the pandemic is not enough to faze these CORRUPT and INCOMPETENT officials...
Solution: employ nurses with no age limit, offer decent/high salary. The bad thing in applying job in phil is they advertise the age limit and should be a graduated from prestigious universities sa qualifications list, this is not fair. So no budget from DOH, then cannot blame nurses who want to work abroad.
I wanted to apply in prestigious hospitals in manila, in the 90s, but did not have chance because i was a graduate in small college of nursing in my province.
Filipino nurses are so kind and hardworking ❤❤❤❤
I am from the Philippines by the way. I have a lot of nurse friends. They prefer to work abroad mainly for greener pastures. Sad to say, working as nurse in the Philippines is hard because they're not well compensated inspite of those working hours they render.
In a country where almost every compartment of the government is plagued with corruption, the greatest protest or the biggest middle finger one can raise against the merciless system is survival and then, eventually, personal success.
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There's no shortage... This is just FAKE NEWS...
@@KevinTroy777 Try working to a hospital then. I dont think you can still say that even just working for a day.
Due to the increasing cases of COVID 19 here in the US some travel nurses can earn to 8k per week depending where (locations) and experiences. Our facility hired a Filipina nurse but her case is different. After she finished her contract in Singapore she was hired as a travel nurse. Her starting salary will be $40/ hr , differential rate during 2nd shift, 3rd shift, weekends and OT. It took her 2 years to get all of the papers. She didn't need IELTS exam because she came from Singapore.
The Filipino nurses I work with a very hardworking kind people. This is sad.
A lot of hero nurses in the Philippines. Respect and more power to them.