FNU national president Eleanor Nolasco said the minimum monthly pay for nurses was meant to help ensure that enough nurses were working in the country’s hospitals. It is even lower in private hospitals, especially in the provinces, at between P8,000 and P12,000. EO 811 set the salary grade for nurses at Salary Grade 11, or P20,754 a month. Ang Nars had appealed the downgrading of government nurses’ salaries in the health, justice and budget departments. P30,000 not enoughDuque acknowledged that even if the P30,000 minimum pay for nurses were granted, this was “still not enough” to keep these workers in the country given how much they could earn abroad.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 09, 2019 21:22 UTC