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Number of Filipino health professionals migrated through 1990 to 2023, disaggregated by country

Requested from CFO by A. Albrando at 03:57 PM on Feb 20, 2023.
Purpose: Data repository for research and policy-making purposes intended for our health workers
Date of Coverage: 01/01/1990 - 01/31/2023
Tracking no: #CFO-281648606340

Albrando 03:57 PM, Feb 20, 2023 

We would like to request for available data on the number of Filipino migrants through the years 1990 to 2023, disaggregated by country of destination, for the following health professionals:

1. Physician
2. Nurse
3. Midwife
4. Dentist
5. Medical Technologist
6. Pharmacist
7. Nutritionist-Dietitian
8. Physical Therapist
9. Occupational Therapist
10. Radiologic Technologist
11. X-ray Technologist

del Rosario 04:16 PM, Feb 27, 2023 

February 27, 2023

Dear Aldinn Albrando,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Feb 20, 2023 03:57:23 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your Request

You asked for Number of Filipino health professionals migrated through 1990 to 2023, disaggregated by country.

Response to Request

We received your request on February 27, 2023 and will respond on or before March 13 03:57:23 PM, in accordance with the Executive Order's implementing rules and regulations.

Should you have any questions regarding your request, kindly contact me using the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://pcoomaster01232017150000-dot-efoi-ph.appspot.com/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHQsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEENGTy0yODE2NDg2MDYzNDAM, for request with ticket number #CFO-281648606340.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

Policy, Planning, and Research Division
Commission on Filipinos Overseas

del Rosario 04:04 PM, Mar 01, 2023 

March 1, 2023

Dear Aldinn Albrando,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Feb 20, 2023 03:57:23 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your Request

You asked for Number of Filipino health professionals migrated through 1990 to 2023, disaggregated by country.

Response to Request

Your FOI request is approved. I am enclosing a copy of the information you requested.

Please note that we are only able to provide data from 1990 to 2020 as data from 2021 onwards is not yet available. Moreover, data for physical and occupational therapists are sorted together and Medical Technologists are grouped with other professions and cannot be separated as it is coded in CFO's system. Meanwhile, there is no available data for Radiologic Technologists.

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If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Secretary Romulo V. Arugay at info@cfo.gov.ph. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).

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Thank you.

Respectfully,

Policy, Planning, and Research Division
Commission on Filipinos Overseas

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 A.Albrando-foi request_health_workers.xlsx

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