Over 200,000 registered nurses are jobless as the Aquino administration failed to increase the number of nurses in the government hospitals.

Gloria Amariego, chief nurse at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH), said the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) have been urging the Aquino administration through the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to increase the number of nurses not only in PGH but in all government hospitals in the country so that the practicing nurses could work with quality on their patients.