Hire more and pay better, nurses say after woes brought up at presidential debateMedical workers screen patients for possible COVID-19 before admission at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City on April 18, 2020. FNU said the next leaders of the country should increase the entry salary of both public and private nurses to P50,000. Entry-level nurses in public hospitals are entitled to a salaries of from P32,053 to P34,801 per month, in line with a Supreme Court ruling. The current entry-level pay of nurses in the private sector, meanwhile, is P11,814 a month, according to Abenojar. Abenojar stressed there is a need to upgrade the benefits in the Magna Carta of Public Health Workers "according to the current cost of living."

Source: Philippine Star February 28, 2022 20:08 UTC