Posted on 02/23/2021 11:27:00 AM PST by nickcarraway
The Philippines will let thousands of its healthcare workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in the United Kingdom and Germany if the two countries agree to donate COVID-19 vaccines, a senior official said on Tuesday (Feb 23).
Britain's health ministry said it was not interested in such a deal, and its priority was to use shots domestically, but said it would share surplus vaccine internationally in the future.
The Philippines, which has among Asia's highest numbers of coronavirus cases, has relaxed a ban on deploying its healthcare workers overseas, but still limits the number of medical professionals leaving the country to 5,000 a year.
Alice Visperas, director of the labour ministry's international affairs bureau, said the Philippines was open to lifting the cap in exchange for vaccines from Britain and Germany, which it would use to inoculate outbound workers and hundreds of thousands of Filipino repatriates.
Nurses are among the millions of Filipinos who work overseas, providing in excess of US$30 billion a year in remittances vital to the country's economy.
"We are considering the request to lift the deployment cap, subject to agreement," Visperas told Reuters.
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Britain has the world's fifth-highest coronavirus death toll, while Germany has the 10th-most infections globally.
Britain said there were 11,000 more nurses working in the National Health Service (NHS) than last year. It said that while it was grateful to the 30,000 Filipinos working for the NHS, Britain did not need to trade vaccines for more.
"We have no plans for the UK to agree a vaccine deal with the Philippines linked to further recruitment of nurses," a health ministry spokeswoman said, citing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's pledge to share spare shots later in the year.
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I want one
For your interest.
I’ll take two!..................
I’ll trade my vaccine for one
From Subic Bay maybe? Sign me up. ;)
Guess I need to ping someone to this thread.
Laz!......................
Human trafficking or humane trafficking?
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Pretty much my response. Can I have one that's really, really hot?
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