Filipinos cheer as Singapore announces 1,600 job opportunities for foreign healthcare workers

Philstar.com, 7 Oct 2012
SINGAPORE (Xinhua) - There will be about 1,600-1,700 vacancies in healthcare sector to meet the needs of the 10 new nursing homes which will be set up in Singapore from now till 2016, Gan Kim Yong, the city-state's Health Minister said on Saturday.
Gan said his ministry will step up efforts to fulfill this vacancies, by seeking personnel resources from educational institutions like the institutes of technical education and polytechnics, as well as encouraging the conversion of mid-career healthcare workers to join these nursing homes, local media Channel NewsAsia quoted as saying. Full story