00:00 Due to the small salary, the country has a problem with the insufficient number of nurses in hospitals that are affected by the quality of their services.
00:09 The answer of the Department of Health in the report of Katrina Son.
00:12 Margarita is a nurse in a hospital in Manila for 11 years.
00:20 She says it's difficult because of the long hours of duty and the lack of people.
00:25 Sometimes, when we reach 30 or 40, there are only two nurses who take care of all of our patients.
00:34 She says she's enduring this because she doesn't want to leave her 7-year-old daughter.
00:40 So she hopes that their salary will be raised.
00:43 So that we can provide the needs of our family and our children.
00:51 Maricel is a nurse. She's already preparing her documents to go abroad.
00:56 I hope to go to the US so that I can have a better life.
00:59 No matter what you do here, it's difficult to manage your salary.
01:04 The ending is that you're left with a load.
01:07 These nurses in the country are not new.
01:12 We are calling for the nurses to raise their salaries in the public and private sectors.
01:21 At the moment, the nurses in the public sector, their salary is equivalent to 36,619 pesos.
01:33 But not all nurses in the public sector are receiving this.
01:38 The DOH-accredited hospitals are the only ones.
01:42 Many nurses in the provinces and LGUs have lower salaries.
01:46 Many are also contractual.
01:48 Another difficulty is that the nurses in the private sector have low salaries.
01:52 It's really understaffing.
01:55 That's why the quality of the services is undervalued.
01:59 The nurses we have called for are not being supported by the Department of Health.
02:05 Tomorrow, in a Cabinet meeting, they will discuss the benefits that the nurses in the country should receive.
02:12 First, they should be able to go home.
02:14 Second, they should have a career or educational plans.
02:17 We are allocating money together so that they can improve their professional life.
02:23 And the third, and other benefits like health insurance for them, aside from PhilHealth.
02:29 We will announce it soon.
02:31 Katrina Son reporting for GMA Integrated News.
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