UK Says No Vaccine Deal With PH For Nurses, Health Workers
UK SAYS NO VACCINE DEAL FOR PH – Recently, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced that they are open to trade health workers and nurses in exchange for vaccines from the UK and Germany.
Currently, a limit of 5,000 nurses can go abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic. As such, DOLE said that they could ease this restriction in exchange for vaccines.
However, the United Kingdom said they would never enter with such a deal in exchange for nurses. According to an article from GMA, UK Ambassador Daniel Pruice said:
“I’d say we’ve got no plans to link vaccines with those conversations around the recruitment of nurses“
“As you know, the UK has made a very emphatic commitment with any surplus vaccines it may have…will be passed on to the WHO COVAX facility and it will be thru the COVAX facility that distribution of surplus vaccines to developing countries will be managed in a fair and equitable way”
Furthermore, he emphasized that the UK had no plans to agree to a vaccine deal with the Philippines related to more recruitment of nurses and health workers.
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