Developed countries are now facing a huge problem. More and more Filipinos are going back to the Philippines while their country’s rising number of aging people is increasing. The baby boomers or those born Post World War II (1946–1964) are now reaching their prime age for medical care. As the number of people who are in need of medical care services rises, the number of medical service providers decreases.
Developed countries like US, Japan, New Zealand, and Europe compete with one another in looking for healthcare professionals, as emerging economies like in the Philippines have started focusing on investments in hospitals, thus creating job opportunities for their own produce of health workers. This means a growing number of professionals who will opt to stay at home.
Philippines and India are the top two countries that provide healthcare professionals. Notably, these countries are also the top providers of outsourcing services worldwide. Due to Philippines’ booming outsourcing industry, the demand for talents with specific skills increased. The government has urged Filipino nurses to come back and work for the outsourcing industry.
Several medical professionals have already opted to stay in the country and work for call centers, where they can earn as much as the amount paid if they work abroad.
“I’m thankful this career opportunity opened up for me,” said Stephanie Chan, 23, a nursing graduate and currently working in a call center. She is one of the many Filipinos who took up a medical course to have a greater opportunity of working abroad. She is also now part of the growing number of medical professionals who opt to stay in the Philippines and work for the outsourcing industry.
The growth and investments in emerging economies like that of the Philippines have helped reduce the imbalance of supply among countries. In return, it has caused a shortage in healthcare professionals in developing nations. In 2009, Japan had 2.2 doctors and 9.5 nurses per 1,000 people; US had 2.4 doctors and 10.8 nurses. While in third world countries, India had 0.2 doctors and 1.4 nurses; Indonesia had 0.7 doctors and 0.9 nurses. The numbers proved a great difference.
“If you are taking more, somebody is losing, unless you put in place a policy that increases the overall supply,” said Kamalini Lokuge, a researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra, who has advised the World Health Organization on improving health care in developing countries.
In the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino III plans to build and rehabilitate more than 2,700 hospitals, clinics, and community health centers in 2013, part of the $9.7 billion investment in infrastructure. The country’s outsourcing industry has grown 6.11 percent in the first half of 2012, and the peso is the best performing currency against dollar, among all Asian currencies, with an increase of 5.5 percent.
New graduates and professionals who want to have a rewarding career no longer need to look for jobs in far-off places. The Philippine Call Center industry has all the variety of job offerings for any professional, may it be from the field of healthcare, engineering, IT, etc.
Currently, the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) has launched its career campaign, Work Abroad, Live Here. They are aiming to develop the visibility of call center industry jobs among the Filipinos. So far, they have received a positive feedback from the people, with many inquiries on job postings from the different companies of the Call center industry.
Developing countries may be doubling the salary for healthcare workers to work for them. They are now experiencing a shortage of healthcare professionals to provide service to their aging baby boomers. But the Philippine Call Center industry has also been pushing efforts to make Filipino nurses stay home and still be successful healthcare professionals.
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Publish on 10/15/2012
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