Field Nurse program to continue

MAASIN CITY - The Nurses in Rural Services program (NARS) will be extended. According to Fe Norma Valuis, the Department of Labor and Employment Field officer in Southern Leyte, the program has been widely acclaimed by local government officials here.

She said the program still has fenough funds to cover this year and she expected more financial aid from international non-government organizations to sustain it in the future.

She added that nurses who have just passed the board examinations would receive a monthly stipend of P8,000 from DOLE and would get an additional P2000 allowance from the local governments hosting them.
The nurse trainees will receive certificates of completion as soon as they complete their 6-month tour of duty.

Valuis said these certificates will prove to their prospective employers in the country or abroad that they are professional health care providers.

The NARS program was launched in February 2009 to provide inexperienced nurses with field experience and to provide health care services to people in isolated rural areas which have no nurses. (PIA Southern Leyte)

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