Why the Philippines is a Major Source of Nurses for Many Countries
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has cited the Philippines as the largest exporter of Nurses to foreign countries.Filipino nurses can be found everywhere around the world -- in the big cities of United States and Ireland, in urbanized centers of Europe and Asia, in the far corners of Africa and South America, in remote desert clinics and state-of-the-art hospitals in the Middle East. There are an estimated 786,000 Filipino Nurses working outside the Philippines, in about 116 countries .