Dalawang klinika sa Marrakech ang nais kumuha ng 100 Filipino nurses, ayon sa Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) sa Moroccan capital city na ito.
Sinabi ni Labor Attaché Dominador Salanga na nagpadala ang POLO ng dalawang memo na humihiling sa Philippine Overseas Employment Administration na maglaan ng mga slots para sa North African state.
Ang kahilingan ay dumating wala pang isang taon mula nang itatag ang opisina ng POLO opisina sa Morocco.
Dati, ang Morocco ay nasa ilalim ng hurisdiksyon ng labor office na naka-attach sa Philippine Embassy sa Tripoli, Libya.
“Our nurses have the skills, especially those with prior experience in the Middle East. Our nationals are also known to be neat, caring, and professional nurses,” ayon kay Salanga noong tanungin kung may partikular na dahilan kung bakit Filipino nurses ang hinahanap ng Morocco.
Sa kasalukuyan, ang Pilipinas ay may taunang deployment ceiling ng 7,000 health care workers (HCWs) batay sa Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases’ Resolution 153.
“Out of the 7,000 slots, we have to request for 100. Remember, POEA has a special quota for Germany, a special project for nurses under JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) so we deploy nurses, caregivers to Japan. These 6,500 to 7,000 is actually spread out and Saudi Arabia takes the pie on top of their usual recruitment office for nurses,” ayon kay Salanga.
Nagtakda ang POLO Rabat ng pamantayan sa kwalipikasyon para sa mga nars na papayagang magtrabaho sa Morocco, kung saan ang French at Arabic ang malawak na wika.
Sinabi ng opisyal na ang mga nars ay dapat may Level B na kasanayan sa wikang Pranses at dalawa hanggang tatlong taong karanasan.
“The doctor can speak English but the nurse would be handling a patient so if you have a patient who only speak French or Arabic and you have a Filipina nurse who is a skilled nurse but unable to speak or understand the language, you are handling lives so it can be the cause of injury,” ayon sa kanya.
Hindi bababa sa 4,600 ang Pilipino na nagtatrabaho sa Morocco, na karamihan ay nagtatrabaho sa mga beauty center o sambahayan.
Gary P Hernal started college at UP Diliman and received his BA in Economics from San Sebastian College, Manila, and Masters in Information Systems Management from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University in Oak Brook, IL. He has 25 years of copy editing and management experience at Thomson West, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters.
