ZAMBOANGA CITY — The Department of Health (DOH) will hire over 500 nurses and 180 midwives for deployment in various communities in the Zamboanga Peninsula as part of its Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement And Local Service (RN HEALS) of the government next month.
Health Regional Director Dr. Aristides Tan said these health workers will work in these communities for at least a year to look after and follow up health needs of the community they are assigned.
These health workers will also screen and validate those that belong in the poorest of the poor for enrollment to the Philippine Health Insurance (PhilHealth).
Tan said, of the 511 available (nurses’) items/ positions, 220 slots will be given to Zamboanga del Sur, 205 to Zamboanga del Norte, 72 to Zamboanga Sibugay, eight to Zamboanga City and six to Isabela City, Basilan.
He said DOH will also hire 180 midwives of which 76 will come from Zamboanga Del Sur, 61 from Zamboanga del Norte, 41 from Sibugay and one each from Zamboanga City and Isabela, Basilan.
He said hiring and selection will be through panel interview with panelists from DOH, City Health Office, and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Hired applicants will have a two-day orientation before deployment to their respective area of assignments/posts.
Areas of deployment of hired nurses will be determined by DOH and DSWD.
The director also said that “One of the priority areas is where most of the beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps are located and where Basic Emergency Maternal Obstetric Neonatal Care centers are situated.”
Tan said these nurses will receive P8,000 monthly pay but the DOH called on concerned local government units (LGUs) for an additional P2,000 (as local counterpart) for these nurses.
The hiring of nurses under RN HEALS is the third in a row that DOH has conducted since last year. (PNA)
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