Filipino workers, including nurses applying to work in United Kingdom, attend a lecture at a review center for the International English Language Testing System or IELTS in Manila, Philippines, April 2, 2019. - Reuters
MANILA, June 18 (Bloomberg): The Philippines allowed more doctors and nurses to leave for overseas jobs, a week after the nation that’s among the world’s top suppliers of nurses halted deployment when it hit a self-imposed limit.
The Covid-19 task force raised the annual deployment cap for newly-hired health workers to 6, 500 from 5, 000, presidential spokesman Harry Roque said in a statement Friday.
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