President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to put up hospitals for overseas filipino workers (OFWs) in countries where they work.

The President, fresh from a weeklong state visit in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar which host at least one million OFWs, said establishing hospitals for Filipinos working abroad is a small token in return for the huge remittances that they send home that help keep the Philippine economy afloat. Last year, OFWs remitted $7.5 billion.

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