The Philippine Embassy and Philippine Overseas Labour Office (POLO) in Kuwait warned all Filipino nurses from falling prey into the modus operandi of some individuals or companies that offer jobs to nurses at the Kuwait Ministry of Health hospitals and clinics in exchange of a hefty placement fee.
This advisory came out after some Filipino nurses filed a complaint at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) in Manila against a certain Filipina recruiter named Mia Gerardo Buenavidez who allegedly duped them with a promise of a job at the MoH.
According to the complainants, Buenavidez who works at a Kuwaiti company offered them to take the MoH Licensure Examination in Kuwait on a visit visa and promised that they will be employed at the MoH after they passed the examination.
She is charging them KD 5,500 as placement fee but asked them to pay KD 500 to KD 600 as down payment for the visit visa and examination fee.
Months passed but the nurses did not get the visit visa. They followed up to no avail prompting them to file a complaint at the POEA.
Source : Arabtimes
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