RP to appeal US nurse ban

The Philippine government is to appeal a move by the US to ban some 17,000 nurses who passed the 2006 nursing examination amid allegations of mass cheating.

The United States Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) issued the temporary ban this week insisting that Filipino nurses retake sections of the June 2006 Nursing Licensure Examination where mass cheating took place.

President Arroyo in a statement Saturday said she had ordered the appeal to "uphold the prestige of the country's nursing profession and continue the deployment of Filipino nurses abroad."

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