Hospitals in the Philippines have been opening up its residency program to doctors from impoverished Nepal to address a shortage of Filipino physicians.
Doctors from Nepal have been migrating to the Philippines for residency training in government hospitals.
They are assigned to different departments like pediatrics, obstetrics, surgery and internal medicine and will train under the hospital's specialists and consultants in these fields.
Other hospitals that also accepted the Nepalese doctors for residency training include the East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC), based in suburban Quezon City, Metro Manila and the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City.
It has residency training program in 11 different departments and accredited by their respective societies.