PH Embassy in Vienna Welcomes Newest Batch of Filipino Nurses to Austria

VIENNA 08 November 2022  –  The Philippine Embassy in Vienna, led by Chargé d’ Affaires, a.i. Susan Irene B. Natividad, in cooperation with the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Milan (POLO Milan), welcomed the newest batch of Filipino healthcare professionals to Austria in a breakfast reception at the Embassy on 05 October 2022. 

Post Arrival Orientation Seminar conducted by Labor Attaché Maria Corina P. Buňag followed, to inform the newly arrived nurses on their rights, privileges, and responsibilities as migrant workers and to help ease their integration in Austria.  The nurses left for Stadl Paura, Upper Austria soon after, to begin their employment.

This pilot deployment is an outcome of ongoing bilateral labor talks between the PH Government and the Federal Economic Chamber of Austria (WKÖ) and the Vienna Social Fund (FSW).  The revival of this long-standing cooperation between the two countries in the field of healthcare comes decades after the first large-scale deployment of Filipino nurses in Austria.

Philippine and Austria are working towards an ethical and transparent framework that will facilitate deployment of Filipino health care professionals to Austria. The Embassy, together with POLO Milan, looks forward to seeing this initiative through completion, with the conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding between PH and Austria by the first quarter of 2023. END

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