As the new phase of Saudi labor localization, otherwise known as Nitaqat, commences, a Filipino migrants support group said Tuesday around 130,000 to 150,000 OFW nurses in Saudi Arabia are facing an uncertain situation in regards to the status of their employment.
Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona said, citing local news report, that Saudi’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has already announced a plan to localize nursing jobs in all its medical facilities.
According to the reports, Saudi’s MoH issued a circular to all its administrative units indicating that employment contracts with foreign nurses, including OFW nurses, who have already completed 10 years of service, will be terminated to give way to the employment of newly graduate Saudi nurses.
“Though it is a bad news to our OFW nurses, we are quite certain that Saudi’s MoH plan of replacing 10-year in-service foreign nurses including OFW nurses is in line of the Nitaqat that entered its new phase of implementation,” Monterona noted.
Saudi’s Ministry of Labor, last week, had announced that the Nitaqat enters new phase of implementation last Saturday, September 10.
Monterona added though the replacement of foreign nurses by local Saudi nurses will not be abrupt, termination is already occurring in government-run hospitals and clinics.
As per Migrante-ME ‘Sagip Migrante’, a monitoring and assistance campaign launched by Migrante chapters in Saudi Arabia, it already monitored 27 OFW nurses, out of the total 60+ that were terminated as of August this year.
The terminated OFW nurses were working in Saudi health ministry hospitals in Al-Tager and in Jeddah, both at the western region of Saudi Arabia. Fifteen (15) OFW nurses worked in Saudi-German hospital, also in Jeddah.
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