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By Krista Angela M. Montealegre, Special To
The Manila Times
With the possible recession in the United States
threatening the expansion opportunities in many businesses there, a
firm based there is looking at the Philippines as a possible
overseas base for the delivery of high-quality education and
affordable major health-care services.
“The health-care education system in the US is
broken and shortages impact on every facet of health care,” said
Dr. Mark Volpe, chief academic officers of MCAI Services. “The
only way to address these shortages is to find alternative ways to
educate more physicians and health-care professionals to fill the
vacant jobs in the US, and to establish and promote a viable
overseas alternative health-care delivery to the US population.”
Michael Sanders, MCAI Services president, said
US companies and institutions have priced themselves out of the
market with astronomical health care costs, and college education
has become unaffordable and unobtainable.
Sanders added that the “publicly perceived
recession” in the US makes the economic climate there not
conducive for many firms to improve their services and take
advantage of opportunities, even in the typically recession-proof
health-care and education sectors.
The effect of the current US economic climate,
he said, will drive Americans to turn to other countries, such as
the Philippines, for alternative education and health-care services.
“The Philippines has a rich history in
medicine, both in the education of new physicians and in the
delivery of health-care services,” Volpe said. “I believe there
is no reason that the Philippines cannot rival Thailand in the
medical-tourism industry and surpass India in the number of
physicians produced for practice in the US,” Sanders added.
The company offers consulting services and the
implementation of business-process solutions to public and private
entities in the US, Asia, and the Middle East.
It provides hospitals and schools current
technology-based management systems and a team of medical practice
and business managers along with access to an extensive US-physician
network.
“Our efforts [in the Philippines] are designed
to serve the masses and will create jobs and educational
opportunities as well as offer the highest quality of health-care
services for foreigners and Filipinos alike,” Sanders said.
Miss Montealegre is a student of The Manila
Times College.
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