It is truly alarming that one of the first ideas of newly appointed Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa is the need to hire nursing graduates who flunked the board exams to stem the shortage of nurses in government hospitals. In his plan stated Monday last week, nursing graduates who failed to make the 75-percent passing score but got 'almost passing' rates can be deployed to government facilities under a temporary license, with the same entry-level Salary Grade 15 equivalent to P36,619 a month. They will be working in a 'limited capacity' and will have to be supervised by licensed nurses, he added.

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