I volunteered for 4 months at the Bicol Medical Center in Naga City, Camarines Sur
They required us to pay a so-called training fee of 2,000 pesos. If we do not pay, they will not furnish us with our well deserved certificates. There are around 180-200 nurses per batch. The Bicol Medical Center is the only tertiary government hospital that requires such fee in Bicol. The Bicol Regional Teaching and Training Hospital does not require the fee.
Government hospitals have found ways to find a legal loophole. Instead of considering our services as volunteerism, they treat it as a training program so they can require us to pay a training fee. That is why they call us fellows instead of volunteers
~ DR,RN,RM
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