Enhance Visa managing director Eden Dumont said hundreds or maybe thousands of Filipino nurses in Canada, for example, are working as janitors or at coffee shops, which pays lower if they had practiced their course.
“The goal is not for just Filipinos to go abroad. They can go abroad and suffer. They have to go abroad and practice their profession because that’s the only way to live a decent life. There are many Filipinos who go abroad but when they are there, they become janitors, or work at a coffee shop. And they can barely live a decent life,” said Dumont when interviewed by phliv.com at Enhance Visa’s Nursing Expo in Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday.
Dumont denied that the nursing profession is no longer in demand, as in Canada, for one, there is a need of at least 60,000 nurses by 2020.
“It is still in demand in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Canada is an aging population. It has a growing population of elderly people who need cares,” she said.
She said Enhance Visa, for 22 years, has been helping Filipino registered nurses get nursing jobs abroad like Canada, Australia and New Zealand by connecting them to its partner Omni College in Vancouver, Canada.
“As we know Filipino educated nurses are not recognized in Canada, Australia and New Zealand because the standard we have here for the nursing course does not meet with that in these foreign countries. So for our Filipino nurses, if they want to become registered nurses in Canada, they will need to enroll at Omni College,” she said.
She explained that for their clients who want to study in Omni and want to become registered nurses there, Enhance Visa, based in the Philippines, will assist them in the visa aspect.
It is a 12-month program at Omni that the Filipino nurses will need to undergo, and then they take the nursing test. Omni claims its success rate, so far, is 95 percent.
For its part, Enhance Visa has been sending an average of 700 nurses per year to these countries.
The processing and tuition may be around P1 million, but Dumont said it can be easily recovered in one year, especially that the nurse’s pay in Canada is P3 million per year.
“The mindset of a Filipino is, “as long as I can get to Canada, that’s already enough.’ Anyone can get to these countries, that is a given. But what if you will only suffer there. So, you need to practice your profession so you will live a good life as what going abroad should entail,” Dumont said.
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