It is pretty clear that Victorino Chua is a duplicitous psychopath. However, so was the serial child killer nurse, Beverley Allitt and the mass murderer, Doctor Harold Shipman. I don't recall any calls at the time they were convicted to ban all english born medical professionals. If there is fraud in any medical recruitment this needs to be dealt with but don't tar everyone with the same brush.
Filipino nurses due to their caring and medical skills are in great demand all over the world. In the UK we are short of 20,000 nurses. UNISON estimates by directly employing Filipino nurses saves the NHS £300 million per year in agency nursing fees.
I suspect that nearly all of us have been treated (gratefully) at a hospital by a Filipino nurse at one time or another. I know I have. To slur all of them with the actions of one is simply a disgrace and if the Daily Mail had any real journalistic values - it should apologise.
UPDATE:
This is the statement handed in to the Daily Mail yesterday by protesters.
"Solidarity gathering supporting UK Filipino Health
Workers
Following the recent conviction and sentencing of Nurse
Victoriano Chua for murdering 2 patients and poisoning 18 others, the Daily
Mail published several references to him being Filipino.
We believed that the nationality of the perpetrator of
these wicked crimes should be irrelevant. We would accept a reference to Chua
being of Filipino ethnicity within the body of the story, however the Daily
Mail refereed to Chua as a ' Filipino serial killer' in the title of the news
article is uncalled for.
The other headline story which is causing offence and
indeed difficulties for Filipino nurses is 'Why are the NHS still hiring
Filipino nurses?'
We believe that one person’s mistake doesn’t reflect
everyone.
We consider the article by Daily Mail questioning the
credibility of Filipino Nurses, including all working Filipinos in the UK,
malicious and degrading. Filipino nurses have undergone four years of tedious study,
community and clinical based experiences and need to pass a gruelling board
examination before they can be called Registered Nurse.
What happened was a tragedy and safety measures have to
be implemented to stop it from happening again however, scaremongering and
targeting a specific group of people is not helping.
The Daily Mail should be shamed of its biased, partial
reporting that is inciting racial hatred which we believe is a crime in the
United Kingdom.
These are the reasons for our protest, we demand an
apology and for the Daily Mail to highlight the outstanding contribution
Filipino health care workers make to the United Kingdom.
Finally, on behalf of the organising committee, in one
with the overwhelming majority of Filipinos throughout the United Kingdom and
indeed the world, we would like to say how truly sorry we are about the
shocking crimes committed by Chua and we send our deepest condolences and
prayers to the families of the victims.
Organisers
Malcolm Conlan
Araial Ilustre
Ric Patriarca
Tara Tiyagarajan
Vannz Bio
Glenda Salazar Taylor
Phoebe Dimacali
Rommel C. Abellar
SIGNED
Saturday 30th May 2015"
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