Health Care Providers Continue To Leave RP for High Paying Jobs Abroad

Health care providers in the Philippines continue to leave the country for a promising future abroad. The common sentiments of people in the medical and nursing profession reflects on the country’s low salary which is way below the salary being offered overseas like the US, Canada, Australia and some European countries.

The increase in demand of Filipino nurses abroad remains unchanged for years. That is why many Filipino doctors are taking up nursing course to grab big opportunity abroad. And for the past years, thousands of doctors left the Philippines to work as nurses in the US, Canada and other Western destinations. But there are also big numbers of Filipino doctors working overseas and practicing their profession at par with their foreign counterparts.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Philippines is the number 1 exporter of nurses in the world and number 2 in doctor deployment. India is the number 1 exporter of doctors, mostly to the US, Canada, Europe and other countries.

Compared to India, the Philippines is more susceptible to health care crisis given the fact that the doctor to patient ratio has a wide margin, a gaping hole which could lead to a serious health care crisis in the next eight years, says experts.