Some 6,755 contractual government nurses assigned in rural areas and poor towns will lose their jobs next year due to the P8.4-billion budget cut on the Health department’s Health Human Resources Deployment (HHRD) under the proposed 2019 national budget, House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya, Jr. of Camarines Sur said Friday.
Andaya said that from a P9.6 -billion budget for HHRD this year, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) reduced it to P1.2 billion for 2019, which means that only three of every five nurses could be employed through the HHRD. There are currently 15,893 health professionals deployed throughout the country.
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