POEA suspends deployment to West Africa

TO prevent Filipinos from being afflicted with the Ebola virus in West Africa, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has temporarily suspended processing and deployment of returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) there.

POEA chief Hans Leo Cacdac said the government is doing this “preventive action” for the protection of all OFWs and their families and for the “general health and welfare of the public.”