The Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP) presented to the President yesterday, a copy of their memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Health (DOH), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC). The MOA deals on the deployment of an additional 100 nurses to beef up the 5,000 nurses already deployed to 20 other poor municipalities under the Nurses Assigned in Rural Service (NARS) project.
PHAP is the country’s largest pharmaceutical group. It is composed of 50 Filipino and international research-based pharmaceutical firms.
Arroyo said the NARS project would provide quality healthcare services in rural areas while giving unemployed registered nurses the opportunity to train and gain the necessary competencies needed for employment here and abroad.
Under the MOA, the PHAP agreed to shoulder the P8,000 monthly allowance of the 100 nurse-trainees who will be recruited under the NARS project. And through its PHAP Cares Foundation, they will also donate medicines, first aid kits and other items to DOH hospitals covered under the NARS project. (PIA)