US firms have eye ties with PH in the health, digital, and energy sectors.
The Business Executives for National Security (BENS) reaffirmed on Monday its commitment to boost the cooperation and investment of the United States in terms of health, digital infrastructure, and energy programs in the Philippines as part of the efforts to enhance Philippine-US economic engagement. πΊπΈπ€π΅ππΌπ»ππ‘β‘
In a meeting with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. at the MalacaΓ±an Palace in Manila, members of the BENS asked the Chief Executive about his thoughts on business opportunities in the healthcare system in the Philippines, especially on the nursing industry and on the digital infrastructure and energy. π¬π€π‘ππ»β‘
βSo one of the main things that we are doing — in fact, we are groundbreaking a big multi-specialty hospital just outside Manila soon, and we are going to open more of them as annexes hospitals,β Marcos told members of the BENS as he emphasized that the Philippine government aims to build more hospitals in far-flung areas. π₯ποΈππ€
βIβve always believed in bringing healthcare down to the grassroots level. Right now, we tend to only go to the hospital when it is absolutely necessary … So healthcare has become an important part of this administration efforts,β he added. π±πππ₯
The President emphasized that the Philippines became βa victim of our success,β, especially during the pandemic, where many world leaders have asked for the countryβs help to deploy more Filipino nurses and medical practitioners abroad. ππππ₯
But he said the Department of Health (DOH) has plans on how to resolve the problem. π‘π€ππ₯
βUnfortunately, in terms of healthcare workers, we have become victims of our success in that the Filipinos did well during the pandemic. And so every leader I meet says, βCan we have more Filipino med techs, doctors, and nurses?β So we have a shortage here,β President Marcos said. ππππ₯
βSo we are trying to find schemes to alleviate that problem. One of the things our Department of Health has come up with is that we are coming to an arrangement with countries who will accept Filipino healthcare workers to at the same time train the equivalent number of healthcare workers that will stay in the Philippines,β he added. π‘π€ππ₯π
Marcos told the BENS that the price, reliability, and supply of energy are one of the problems brought up by some of the foreign investors in the Philippines, including the problem of the ease of doing business. β‘ππΌ
The President, however, emphasized that it is something that the government is working on. πΌπ€β‘
βThe ease of doing business is something that we can immediately do because putting up power plants, no matter what kind of power plants, there are six, seven years, lead time. So maybe we can do better with the new technologies,β Marcos said. π‘β‘πΌπ±
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