Switzerland Opens Doors To Nurses
The Philippines is working with Swiss government authorities on the entry of Filipino nurses as trainees to Switzerland where Filipino health care workers who arrived in the European country in the 1970s are well regarded.
Philippine Ambassador to Switzerland Leslie Baja and Federal Office of Migration Director Mario Gattiker recently started discussions on the intensification of the entry into Switzerland of Filipino professional and technical trainees, including nurses, under a bilateral agreement.
Under the agreement, Filipinos and Swiss nationals can work in each other's country for a maximum of 18 months and receive training in the field of their choice.
Prior to his meeting with Gattiker, Baja also met with officials of APM Technica, a company manufacturing adhesives in a Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) zone in the Philippines, which regularly brings Filipino trainees to work in its company for 18 months in Switzerland.
Baja also met with about two dozen Filipino au pairs in Switzerland, most of whom graduated as nurses in the Philippines
More than a hundred au pairs have been deployed to Switzerland since a ban was lifted in 2010.
An au pair, a French phrase m which means "on par" or "equal to", is typically a young woman and sometimes a young man from a foreign country, usually below 30 years old, who chooses to help look after the children of a host family, provide light housekeeping work, and learn the culture of the host country.
The au pair is given free board and lodging and is given a reasonable "allowance."
By ROY C. MABASA
MB.COM.PH
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