NurseReview.Org: Group seeks Saudi exemption from exams for RP nurses

Group seeks Saudi exemption from exams for RP nurses

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 07:24 PM PST

By JC BELLO RUIZ
November 27, 2009, 4:27pm

The Philippine government should ask Saudi Arabia to exempt Filipino nurses from the requirement to take the "prometric" exam to work in the country, the Migrante-Middle East said Friday, noting that the oil-rich country is the one that needs the services of Filipino nurses.

Migrante said the new qualifying exam required by the Saudi government is "an additional burden to Filipino nurses going to the Mideast."

"The implementation of this new Saudi labor policy should not only be delayed, but should not be implemented at all by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA)," Migrante-ME regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona said in a statement.

POEA Administrator Jennifer Manalili had earlier asked Saudi Arabia to delay the implementation of the prometric exam, the equivalent to the licensure exam taken by nurses in the Philippines, to allow the government to prepare procedures for RP nurses planning to work in the Middle East countries to meet the new requirement

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