New York gov mulls recruiting Pinoy health workers

Medical frontliners attend to patients on Tuesday midnight, April 27, 2021 at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon CIty which set up additional tents near the emergency room to attend to the influx of COVID-19 patients.

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MANILA, Philippines — New York is considering hiring medical workers from the Philippines and other countries to replace unvaccinated staff at hospitals and nursing homes who will not comply with the state’s requirement for health workers to get COVID-19 vaccine shots.

In preparation for the vaccination deadline on Sept. 27, Gov. Kathy Hochul released on Saturday a comprehensive plan to address preventable staffing shortages in hospitals and other health care facilities statewide.

“We are still in a battle against COVID to protect our loved ones, and we need to fight with every tool at our disposal,” Hochul said in a statement released by her office.

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