A group of nurses on Friday called out the Department of Health (DOH) for its statement about the country needing 12 years to fill the gap of 127,000 nurses needed in the health-care sector. Why not hire back the nurses whose contracts have expired and address the issues of understaffing and substandard pay, asked Jocelyn Andamo, secretary general of the Filipino Nurses United (FNU), during a protest march on May 5 to mark National Health Workers' Day. The group was responding to DOH officer in charge Maria Rosario Vergeire, who told a House hearing on appropriations on Thursday about the shortage of nurses needed to provide optimal patient care.

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