Guidelines on “limited practice” of medical graduates set by the Department of Health (DOH) have been approved by the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, its spokesperson and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT“The Interim Guidelines for the Granting of Special Authorization for the Limited Practice of Medical Graduates as presented by the DOH is hereby adopted,” Nograles said in a virtual briefing. “Provided, that special authorizations shall only be issued as a last resort,” he noted. The senator said this was already done in Italy where over 10,000 medical graduates were fast-tracked into early service to boost its health system amid the pandemic. As of Monday, there are 4,932 cases of COVID-19 in the country with 315 fatalities.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 14, 2020 04:04 UTC