BACOLOD CITY, Oct. 23 -- The Department of Health - Negros Island Region (DOH-NIR) is hiring 432 health personnel to be assigned to local health offices and units across the region starting in 2026.

The needed personnel include 245 nurses, 152 midwives, 15 medical technologists, eight nutritionist-dieticians, six pharmacists, three physical therapists, and three dentists.

They will be deployed to all cities and municipalities in the provinces of Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, and Siquijor.

In an advisory dated Oct. 21, Regional Director Razel Nikka Hao said that as a newly established implementing agency with a direct General Appropriations Act allocation, "the DOH-NIR will implement the recruitment and hiring process for human re...