Nepalese people in the Philippines form a small migrant and immigrant community consisting mostly of doctors and medical students with Nepalese origin.
Overview
Hospitals in the Philippines have been opening up its residency program to doctors from Nepal to address a shortage of Filipino physicians. Doctors from Nepal have been migrating to the Philippines for residency training in government hospitals.
Bicol Medical Center
The Bicol Medical Center (BMC) is a tertiary level government hospital in the Philippines with an authorized bed capacity of one thousand (1000).Philippine Republic Act 11478 Section 2 It is located along BMC Road, Concepcion PequeĊa, Naga, ...
(BMC) based in
Naga City has about a total of 40 Nepalese doctors who are undergoing or are about to undergo residency training. 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
Quezon City (, ; ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read and pronounced in Filipino language, Filipino as Kyusi), is the richest and List of cities in the Philippines, most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 c ...
, Metro Manila and the
Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center
Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) is a government-owned hospital in Cebu City, Philippines.
VSMMC is a general tertiary medical center teaching training medical facility owned by the Philippine Government. It aims to provide health ...
(VSMMC) in
Cebu City
Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu, is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 964,169 people, making ...
.
In
Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH), based in Bacolod city, Negros, there were Nepalese residents undergoing residency training in different departments. CLMMRH is only the tertiary center and trauma center in Negros island. It has residency training program in 11 different departments and accredited by their respective societies.
See also
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Indians in the Philippines
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Non Resident Nepali
Overseas Nepalese or Non-Resident Nepalese are either foreigners of Nepalese ancestry or Nepalis (citizens of Nepal) who live outside the South Asian nation of Nepal.
Under the Non-Resident Nepali Act of 2007, Non-Resident Nepali (NRN) (, ''Gair ...
References
Asian diaspora in the Philippines
Philippines
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