The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has announced that it would hire about 300 medical health-care workers to man its overseas Filipino workers’ hospital facility in Pampanga.
In an online news briefing on Wednesday, Labor Undersecretary Renato L. Ebarle disclosed that of the 293 positions to be employed in the facility, 260 are considered critical positions.
“We will start hiring by the third quarter of the year,” said Ebarle, who is one of the chairmen of the DOLE Committee on the Construction of the OFW Hospital and Diagnostic Center.
He said they are targeting to hold the soft opening of the P550-million hospital by October.
But he noted the formal opening of the OFW hospital, when all of its necessary equipment are installed in the facility, will be on the first half of 2022.
As of May 6, 2021, Ebarle said the construction of the hospital is 15.7 percent complete.
“This is way ahead of the schedule of 2.41 percent [completion] since our contractor is operating faster [than what we expected],” Ebarle said.
Once completed, the hospital would be able to accommodate 100 patients.