Adopted: 21 May 2014
Date Filed: 26 May 2014

All licensed recruitment agencies are urged to have their returning/vacationing workers from the Middle East undergo Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus (MERS CoV) test prior to their departure for the Philippines through the facilitation of their respective employers at no cost to the workers.

Likewise, with the declaration of a polio outbreak in at least ten countries, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are strongly advised to get anti-polio vaccinations, prior to their departure from the Philippines for their respective jobsites, at any hospitals and clinics accredited by the Department of Health (DOH) to administer medical examinations to OFWs.

For information and guidance.

(SGD.) HANS LEO J. CACDAC
Administrator