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By The Honolulu Advertiser

There is an estimated 20,000 U.S. “traveling nurses” who move from hospital to hospital on assignments typically lasting 13 weeks. Travel nurses help hospitals fill workplace gaps and, in some cases keep hospital units open.   Read more…

GMA says aside from nurses and caregivers, the approval of the Jpepa will also pave the way for the entry of Philippine agricultural products to Japan.

MANILA – President Arroyo said the government will work with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) to provide language training for Filipino health workers who will work in Japan once that country opens its doors to them following the signing of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa).

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(Researched by: Eliza Abalanzar)

Evangeline Joy U.Ramos DMD

August 26, 2006

“The legacy of being a doctor is being like Hippocrates, Jesus and Rizal who had to cater health care despite of non compensation. Though I know everybody needs money, I only hope doctors in the Philippines be given a justified way to live, a dignified existence so that they can live long and be able to cater health service in more number of years for their people, especially the most vulnerable Filipinos such as the kids, elderly and the diseased. Remember, these are the people who need doctors’ care more but they don’t have money to pay a doctor, giving way for them to stick with such medical myths and existence of malpractice and deceiving health care and presence of faith healers since they have no choice at all….A dentist will spend lots of money and time studying his profession, excluding his particular specialization. But in the end, no particular institution will absorb him. Meaning when you graduate with no big capital you will end up as a jobless person unless you decide to focus your career to the passion of science, meaning catering more to charity services. I pity those children who suffer from preventable dental diseases. But I can’t blame my colleagues who are shifting career paths to nursing, because life’s reality of survival is there.” Read more…

It was in the early 1990s when Cristine Albano Dapar learned about the impending shortage of nurses in the United States. She was a teenager living in the Philippines at the time. “I had been hearing in the news about the shortage,” recalls Dapar. “It so happened that my Dad worked in the U.S. military and had the privilege of bringing his family to Hawaii. He asked me, ‘Why don’t you work as a nurse?’” She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila in 1996, and two years later was hired at Leahi Hospital in Diamond Head. She joined St. Francis Healthcare Systems of Hawaii in 2001 as a nurse and is happy with her career choice. Read more…

Last 2004, Elmer Reyes Jacinto topped the Philippine Medical Board Examinations taken by 1,800 aspiring doctors. His story reads like a perfect script for a role model. He grew up in the remote province of Basilan in Mindanao where electricity was unreliable and newspapers came in a week late. He was a consistent scholar and worked hard. He graduated magna cum laude from his medical school in Bulacan. He is bright, young, and single – the proverbial hope of his country. Read more…