12,000 nurses could lose jobs due to budget constraints, warns ANG NARS party-list

Thousands of nurses under the Department of Health's deployment program are at risk of losing their jobs due to budget constraints, the Ang Nars Party-list said.

According to a report on GMA's "24 Oras Weekend" on Sunday, Ang Nars party-list Representative Leah Paquis said some 12,000 nurses may lose their jobs, as their contracts are about to end, and the government has no sufficient funds to renew their contracts.

Aside from this, Ang Nars said doctors, midwives, and pharmacists also face the same fate because of the same reason.

With this, Ang Nars has appealed to the government to regularize the affected nurses, and put a halt to contractualization in the country.

GMA News has reached out to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and to Malacañang for comment, but no response has been received as of posting. — Jon Viktor D. Cabuenas/BM, GMA News