MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is “willing to recommend” the increase of deployment cap of healthcare workers overseas as urged by medical groups.
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The temporary deployment cap of 5,000 was imposed last year to ensure that the country will not run out of medical workers.
“Actually, that subject has been a matter of discussion by a technical working group,” Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said in an interview with CNN Philippines interview on Monday. “We formed this technical working group to find out if there is any possible means of increasing the deployment cap wi…
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