PGIN to hire 100 nurses

THE Ilocos Norte provincial government launches the “Saguip Nars” on March 28 in Laoag City. The program aims to employ registered nurses in the province by deploying them to different barangays. The nurses in turn will get a chance to accrue the minimum two years clinical experience required of them when seeking for employment abroad. (Alaric Yanos)

By Leilanie G. Adriano

Staff Reporter

The Provincial government of Ilocos Norte (PGIN) will be hiring at least 100 registered nurses to be deployed in the province’s district hospitals and rural villages for six months.

With hundreds of thousands of unemployed licensed nurses desperate for work, the Ilocos Norte government launched its “Sagip Nars” program to help them gain temporary employment while seeking better job opportunities here and abroad.

On March 27, about a hundred young registered nurses attended an orientation meeting at the Provincial Capitol for the said program.

An initial screening and interview was held March 28.

According to Nicole Rudio, Provincial Employment Services Office (PESO) head, the hiring of registered nurses is also a part of the Task Force Trabaho program meant to reduce unemployment in the province.

“They will be deployed in areas nearest them so that they may no longer spend for fares,” Rudio said adding that the deployment will start mid-April until mid-September this year for the first batch.

Next year, another batch of nurses will be hired again by the province with a minimum pay of P5, 000 monthly.

Nurses are now the nation’s second-largest group of professionals after teachers.

The Professional Regulation Commission estimates that there are at least 300,000 unemployed nurses in the country.

The country’s large oversupply of nurses has contributed not only to unemployment among their ranks but also to the downward pressure on their wages.

Under the Republic Act 9173 or the Nursing Law of 2002, the floor pay of public nurses is pegged at Salary Grade 15 or a monthly rate of at least P22, 688. That pay grade though is rarely followed by government hospitals because they simply do not have the money. Even the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. is paying their nurses only about P15, 000 monthly. Private sector nurses are just as underpaid.

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