New House Bill for expansion of NARS program in Philippines

Rep. Arnel Ty of the party-list group LPG/MA  filed a bill seeking to establish a special jobs plan for the country’s growing number of unemployed and underemployed nurses.
As proposed by Ty in House Bill 4582, the jobs plan would be an expanded version of the Nurses Assigned in Rural Service (NARS), the short-lived Philippine government project that enlisted 10,000 nurses to improve healthcare services in the country’s 1,000 poorest municipalities in 2009.
Ty said nurses now comprise the country’s second-largest group of professionals after teachers, and the nation’s biggest group of unemployed skilled workers.